A logarithmic improvement in the two-point Weyl law for manifolds without conjugate points

Abstract: In this paper, we study the two-point Weyl Law for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a smooth, compact Riemannian manifold

M

with no conjugate points. That is, we find the asymptotic behavior of the Schwartz kernel,

E_{l} a m b d a (x, y)

, of the projection operator from

L^{2} (M)

onto the direct sum of eigenspaces with eigenvalue smaller than

l a m b d a^{2}

as

l a m b d a o i n f t y

. In the regime where

x, y

are restricted to a compact neighborhood of the diagonal in

M i m e s M

, we obtain a uniform logarithmic improvement in the remainder of the asymptotic expansion for

E_{l} a m b d a

and its derivatives of all orders, which generalizes a result of B'erard, who treated the on-diagonal case

E_{l} a m b d a (x, x)

. When

x, y

avoid a compact neighborhood of the diagonal, we obtain this same improvement in an upper bound for

E_{l} a m b d a

. Our results imply that the rescaled covariance kernel of a monochromatic random wave locally converges in the

C^{i} n f t y

topology to a universal scaling limit at an inverse logarithmic rate.

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