Ergodic billiards that are not quantum unique ergodic (with an appendix by Andrew Hassell and Luc Hillairet)

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2010.171.605zbMATH Open1196.58014arXiv0807.0666OpenAlexW1978683706MaRDI QIDQ974052FDOQ974052

Andrew Hassell

Publication date: 27 May 2010

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Partially rectangular domains are compact two-dimensional Riemannian manifolds $X$, either closed or with boundary, that contain a flat rectangle or cylinder. In this paper we are interested in partially rectangular domains with ergodic billiard flow; examples are the Bunimovich stadium, the Sinai billiard or Donnelly surfaces. We consider a one-parameter family $X_t$ of such domains parametrized by the aspect ratio $t$ of their rectangular part. There is convincing theoretical and numerical evidence that the Laplacian on $X_t$ with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions is not quantum unique ergodic (QUE). We prove that this is true for all $tin[1,2]$ excluding, possibly, a set of Lebesgue measure zero. This yields the first examples of ergodic billiard systems proven to be non-QUE.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.0666

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zbMATH Keywords

eigenfunctionsBunimovich stadiumpartially rectangular domains

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic distributions of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P20) Relations between spectral theory and ergodic theory, e.g., quantum unique ergodicity (58J51)

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