TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sogge,Christopher D.
TI  - Hangzhou lectures on eigenfunctions of the Laplacian
T2  - Annals of mathematics studies
SN  - 9780691160788 (pbk. : alk. paper)
U1  - 515.3533 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Laplacian operator
KW  - Eigenfunctions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. A review : the Laplacian and the d'Alembertian --
2. Geodesics and the Hadamard paramatrix --
3. The sharp Weyl formula --
4. Stationary phase and microlocal analysis --
5. Improved spectral asymptotics and periodic geodesics --
6. Classical and quantum ergodicity --
Appendix --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index --
Symbol glossary
N2  - This book introduces eigenfunctions on Riemannian manifolds. Christopher Sogge gives a proof of the sharp Weyl formula for the distribution of eigenvalues of Laplace-Beltrami operators, as well as an improved version of the Weyl formula, the Duistermaat-Guillemin theorem under natural assumptions on the geodesic flow. Sogge shows that there is quantum ergodicity of eigenfunctions if the geodesic flow is ergodic. Sogge begins with a treatment of the Hadamard parametrix before proving the first main result, the sharp Weyl formula. He avoids the use of Tauberian estimates and instead relies on sup-norm estimates for eigenfunctions. The author also gives a rapid introduction to the stationary phase and the basics of the theory of pseudodifferential operators and microlocal analysis. These are used to prove the Duistermaat-Guillemin theorem. Turning to the related topic of quantum ergodicity, Sogge demonstrates that if the long-term geodesic flow is uniformly distributed, most eigenfunctions exhibit a similar behavior, in the sense that their mass becomes equidistributed as their frequencies go to infinity
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