Localized L^p-estimates of eigenfunctions: a note on an article of Hezari and Rivière

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2015.11.035zbMATH Open1331.58036arXiv1503.07238OpenAlexW2963375637MaRDI QIDQ904020FDOQ904020

Publication date: 15 January 2016

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We use a straightforward variation on a recent argument of Hezari and Rivi`ere~cite{HR} to obtain localized

L^{p}

-estimates for all exponents larger than or equal to the critical exponent

p_{c} = f r a c 2 (n + 1) n - 1

. We are able to this directly by just using the

L^{p}

-bounds for spectral projection operators from our much earlier work cite{Seig}. The localized bounds we obtain here imply, for instance, that, for a density one sequence of eigenvalues on a manifold whose geodesic flow is ergodic, all of the

L^{p}

,

2 < p l e i n f t y

, bounds of the corresponding eigenfunctions are relatively small compared to the general ones in cite{Seig}, which are saturated on round spheres. The connection with quantum ergodicity was established for exponents

2 < p < p_{c}

in the recent results of the author cite{SK} and Blair and the author cite{BS2}; however, the article of Hezari and Rivi`ere~cite{HR} was the first one to make this connection (in the case of negatively curved manifolds) for the critical exponent,

p_{c}

. As is well known, and we indicate here, bounds for the critical exponent,

p_{c}

, imply ones for all of the other exponents

2 < p l e i n f t y

. The localized estimates involve

L^{2}

-norms over small geodesic balls

B_{r}

of radius

r

, and we shall go over what happens for these in certain model cases on the sphere and on manifolds of nonpositive curvature. We shall also state a problem as to when one can improve on the trivial