Distribution laws for integrable eigenfunctions

Shiffman, Bernard; Tate, Tatsuya; Zelditch, Steve

Distribution laws for integrable eigenfunctions

Authors

Shiffman, Bernard

Tate, Tatsuya

Zelditch, Steve

Description

We determine the asymptotics of the joint eigenfunctions of the torus action on a toric Kahler variety. Such varieties are models of completely integrable systems in complex geometry. We first determine the pointwise asymptotics of the eigenfunctions, which show that they behave like Gaussians centered at the corresponding classical torus. We then show that there is a universal Gaussian scaling limit of the distribution function near its center. We also determine the limit distribution for the tails of the eigenfunctions on large length scales. These are not universal but depend on the global geometry of the toric variety and in particular on the details of the exponential decay of the eigenfunctions away from the classically allowed set.
33 pages, 3 figures