On the quantum unique ergodicity conjecture for hyperbolic arithmetic manifolds
Suppose u_j is an orthonormal basis of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on a compact Riemannian manifold, and consider the probability measures |u_j|^2 dvol. The quantum ergodicity theorem of Shnirelman, Zelditch and Colin de Verdiere, states that if the geodesic flow on the manifold is ergodic then there is a density one subsequence of these measures that equidistributes. What about the remaining eigenfunctions? The quantum unique ergodicity conjecture of Rudnick and Sarnak states that for hyperbolic manifolds (or more generally for negatively curved manifolds), any sequence of measures as above equidistributes. In 2006 Lindenstrauss proved that this is true for Hecke-Maass forms on congruence surfaces. These are eigenfunctions of both the Laplacian and the Hecke operators, which are discrete averaging operators coming from the arithmetic structure of the manifold.
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