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Spectral Geometry, Volume 84 http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/pspum/084 Spectral Geometry This page intentionally left blank Proceedings of Symposia in PURE MATHEMATICS Volume 84 Spectral Geometry Alex H. Barnett Carolyn S. Gordon Peter A. Perry Alejandro Uribe Editors M THE ATI A CA M L ΤΡΗΤΟΣ ΜΗ N ΕΙΣΙΤΩ S A O C C I I American Mathematical Society R E E T ΑΓΕΩΜΕ Y M Providence, Rhode Island A F O 8 U 88 NDED 1 2010 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPECTRAL GEOMETRY with support from the National Science Foundation, grant DMS-1005360 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 58J53, 58J50, 58J51, 65N25, 35P15, 11F72, 53C20, 34L15, 34E05, 57R18. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data International conference on Spectral Geometry (2010 : Dartmouth College) Spectral geometry : international conference, July 19–23, 2010, Dartmouth College, Dart- mouth, New Hampshire / Alex H. Barnett, Carolyn S. Gordon, Peter A. Perry, Alejandro Uribe, editors. pages cm. — (Proceedings of symposia in pure mathematics ; volume 84) Includes bibliograpical references. ISBN 978-0-8218-5319-1 (alk. paper) 1. Spectral geometry—Congresses. I. Barnett, Alex, 1972 December 7–editor of compilation. II. Title. QA614.95.I58 2010 516.362–dc23 2012024258 Copying and reprinting. Material in this book may be reproduced by any means for edu- cational and scientific purposes without fee or permission with the exception of reproduction by services that collect fees for delivery of documents and provided that the customary acknowledg- ment of the source is given. 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Contact the AMS for copyright status of individual articles. Printed in the United States of America. ∞ The paper used in this book is acid-free and falls within the guidelines established to ensure permanence and durability. Visit the AMS home page at http://www.ams.org/ 10987654321 171615141312 Contents Preface vii PART I. EXPOSITORY LECTURES. Introduction to Spectral Theory on Hyperbolic Surfaces David Borthwick 3 Orbifolds and their Spectra Carolyn Gordon 49 A brief introduction to semiclassical analysis Alejandro Uribe and Zuoqin Wang 73 PART II. INVITED PAPERS. The dynamics of the Schr¨odinger flow from the point of view of semiclassical measures Nalini Anantharaman and Fabricio Macia` 93 Dependence of the Spectrum of a Quantum Graph on Vertex Conditions and Edge Lengths Gregory Berkolaiko and Peter Kuchment 117 Investigating the spectral geometry of a soft wall Jeffrey Bouas, Stephen Fulling, Fernando Mera, Krishna Thapa, Cynthia Trendafilova, and Jef Wagner 139 Equivariant Inverse Spectral Problems Emily B. Dryden, Victor Guillemin, and Rosa Sena-Dias 155 Classical Equivalence and Quantum Equivalence of Magnetic Fields on Flat Tori Carolyn Gordon, William Kirwin, Dorothee Schueth, and David Webb 167 A semiclassical heat trace expansion for the perturbed harmonic oscillator Victor Guillemin, Alejandro Uribe, and Zuoqin Wang 181 Estimates on Neumann eigenfunctions at the boundary, and the “Method of Particular Solutions” for computing them Andrew Hassell and Alex Barnett 195 Recent progress on the Quantum Unique Ergodicity Conjecture Peter Sarnak 211 v vi CONTENTS Lower bounds for volumes of nodal sets: an improvement of a result of Sogge-Zelditch Hamid Hezari and Zuoqin Wang 229 The nodal set of a finite sum of Maass cusp forms is a graph Chris Judge 237 Asymptotics of spectral quantities of Schr¨odinger operators Thomas Kappeler, Beat Schaad, and Peter Topalov 243 On the nodal lines of random and deterministic Laplace eigenfunctions Igor Wigman 285 Pluri-potential theory on Grauert tubes of real analytic Riemannian manifolds, I Steven Zelditch 299 Preface These Proceedings are the outcome of an International Conference on Spectral Geometry held at Dartmouth College on July 19-23, 2010. Over eighty gradu- ate students, postdoctoral researchers, and senior researchers participated in the conference, and many participants attended three minicourses on July 16-17 that gave needed background on semiclassical analysis, spectral theory on hyperbolic surfaces, and orbifold spectral geometry. This volume contains these preparatory lectures together with a reprint of Peter Sarnak’s article “Recent Progress on the Quantum Unique Ergodicity Conjecture” which will provide valuable background for researchers interested in forefront de- velopments in spectral geometry. Research contributions include recent work on semiclassical measures, inverse spectral geometry, spectral properties of quantum graphs, statistics of nodal lines of eigenfunctions, spectral asymptotics, and many other developments of current interest in the field. We hope that researchers inter- ested in spectral geometry and its interactions with number theory, physics, and applied mathematics will find this collection a valuable reference. One of the principal themes in the conference and in this volume is the behavior of eigenfunctions. Peter Sarnak’s survey article describes the very exciting recent progress on the Quantum Unique Ergodicity (QUE) conjecture of Zeev Rudnick and Sarnak, which addresses the behavior of the highly excited states in the quan- tization of ergodic Hamiltonian systems. Microlocal analysis allows one to associate functions on a phase space T ∗M to functions on the configuration space, M,for example by the Wigner function construction. Weak limits of Wigner functions of sequences {φj } of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on a Riemannian manifold measure whether the eigenfunctions tend to concentrate or become equidistributed (tend to Liouville measure) in the semi-classical limit. The beautiful Quantum Er- godicity Theorem says that if the classical flow is ergodic, there is a subsequence of density one that is uniformly distributed. This theorem leaves open, however, the possibility of “scarring”: Could there exist subsequences of density zero that converge, say, to a measure concentrated along a periodic orbit of the Hamiltonian system? The survey article by Nalini Anantharaman and Fabricio Maci`a provides an in- novative companion to Sarnak’s survey. The fundamental solution of the Schr¨odinger operator without potential on a compact manifold, eitΔ, is very dispersive because it propagates higher frequency waves faster than low frequency ones. It turns out however that time averages of Wigner distributions of suitable functions of the itΔ form e (un), where n is a large frequency parameter, have a semiclassical or high-frequency limit. (Here the un’s are quite general; they need not be eigenfunc- tions.) In their paper, Anantharaman and Maci`a review some of their results on vii viii PREFACE the subtle relationship between these limits and dynamical properties of geodesic flow. The numerical computation of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions has also played a pivotal role in advancing our understanding in areas such as scars and QUE. The paper of Andrew Hassell and Alex Barnett extends such a numerical method from the Dirichlet to the Neumann boundary condition, and gives rigorous error bounds on the eigenvalues. Three articles address the patterns and volumes of nodal sets of eigenfunctions. In the past two years, dramatic improvements have been achieved, by both local and global methods, for the lower bound on volumes of nodal sets of eigenfunctions. The article by Hamid Hezari and Zuoqin Wang gives a further improvement with an elegantly simple proof and gives a nice exposition of the various methods used in the recent advances. Chris Judge’s paper studies nodal sets of sums of Maass cusp forms corresponding to distinct eigenvalues on a finite-volume hyperbolic sur- face X: motivated by Cheng’s well-known result that the nodal set of a Laplace eigenfunction on a compact surface is a topological graph, Judge shows that the closure of the nodal set of such a sum is the embedding of a graph into the closure of X. Numbers of nodal domains and the lengths of nodal lines of chaotic eigen- functions on surfaces are very difficult to address; more progress has been made in the related case of random eigenfunctions of symmetric spaces (such as random spherical harmonics of fixed degree on S2). Igor Wigman provides a clear survey of these latest results. Grauert tubes are strictly pseudo-convex Stein manifolds, and in some ways are analogous to strictly pseudo-convex domains in Cm and to Hermitian unit bundles in negative line bundles. The purpose of Steven Zelditch’s article is to extend to Grauert tubes some of the basic notions and results of PSH (pluri-subharmonic) function theory on stricty pseudo-convex domains in Cm and their recent gener- alization of this theory to K¨ahler manifolds. The basic theme is to use analytic continuations of eigenfunctions ϕC in place of holomorphic polynomials of degree λj m ∼ λj on C or holomorphic sections of line bundles of degree ∼ λj over a K¨ahler manifold. Zelditch also gives a detailed proof of a theorem stated by Boutet de Monvel that the Poisson kernel admits an analytic continuation as a Fourier inte- gral operator with complex phase. A second major theme is inverse spectral geometry, the study of the extent to which geometry is encoded in spectral data.
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