Scaling Limit for the Kernel of the Spectral Projector and Remainder Estimates in the Pointwise Weyl Law

Abstract

Let (M, g) be a compact smooth Riemannian manifold. We obtain new off-diagonal estimates as λ tend to infinity for the remainder in the pointwise Weyl Law for the kernel of the spectral projector of the Laplacian onto functions with frequency at most λ. A corollary is that, when rescaled around a non self-focal point, the kernel of the spectral projector onto the frequency interval (λ, λ+ 1] has a universal scaling limit as λ goes to infinity (depending only on the dimension of M). Our results also imply that if M has no conjugate points, then immersions of M into Euclidean space by an orthonormal basis of eigenfunctions with frequencies in (λ, λ+ 1] are embeddings for all λ sufficiently large.

Published version. Modified parametrix construction in Section 3. References added and typos corrected