Patterson-Sullivan distributions and quantum ergodicity

DOI10.1007/S00023-006-0311-7zbMATH Open1187.81175arXivmath/0601776OpenAlexW2006552368MaRDI QIDQ879908FDOQ879908

Nalini Anantharaman, Steve Zelditch

Publication date: 10 May 2007

Published in: Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We relate two types of phase space distributions associated to eigenfunctions $ph{i}_{i{r}_j}$ of the Laplacian on a compact hyperbolic surface $X_{Gamma}$: (1) Wigner distributions $in{t}_{S^{*}X}ad{W}_{i{r}_j}=<Op(a)ph{i}_{i{r}_j},ph{i}_{i{r}_j}{>}_{L^2(X)}$, which arise in quantum chaos. They are invariant under the wave group. (2) Patterson-Sullivan distributions $P{S}_{i{r}_j}$, which are the residues of the dynamical zeta-functions $lcal(s;a):=su{m}_{g}ammafrac{e}^{-s{L}_{g}amma}1-e^{-L_{g}amma}in{t}_{gamm{a}_0}a$ (where the sum runs over closed geodesics) at the poles $s=1/2+i{r}_j$. They are invariant under the geodesic flow. We prove that these distributions (when suitably normalized) are asymptotically equal as $r_{j}oinfty$. We also give exact relations between them. This correspondence gives a new relation between classical and quantum dynamics on a hyperbolic surface, and consequently a formulation of quantum ergodicity in terms of classical ergodic theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0601776

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

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