Semiclassical measures for higher-dimensional quantum cat maps

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Abstract: Consider a quantum cat map M associated to a matrix AinmathopmathrmSp(2n,mathbbZ), which is a common toy model in quantum chaos. We show that the mass of eigenfunctions of M on any nonempty open set in the position-frequency space satisfies a lower bound which is uniform in the semiclassical limit, under two assumptions: (1) there is a unique simple eigenvalue of A of largest absolute value and (2) the characteristic polynomial of A is irreducible over the rationals. This is similar to previous work [arXiv:1705.05019], [arXiv:1906.08923] on negatively curved surfaces and [arXiv:2103.06633] on quantum cat maps with n=1, but this paper gives the first results of this type which apply in any dimension. When condition (2) fails we provide a weaker version of the result and discuss relations to existing counterexamples. We also obtain corresponding statements regarding semiclassical measures and damped quantum cat maps.




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