The defect of toral Laplace eigenfunctions and Arithmetic Random Waves

Abstract

We study the defect (or "signed area") distribution of toral Laplace eigenfunctions restricted to shrinking balls of radius above the Planck scale, in either random Gaussian scenario ("Arithmetic Random Waves"), or deterministic eigenfunctions averaged w.r.t. the spatial variable. In either scenario we exploit the associated symmetry of the eigenfunctions to show that the expectation (Gaussian or spatial) vanishes. Our principal results concern the high energy limit behaviour of the defect variance.

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