We investigate the number of nodal intersections of random Gaussian Laplace eigenfunctions on the standard three-dimensional flat torus with a fixed smooth reference curve, which has nowhere vanishing curvature. The expected intersection number is universally proportional to the length of the reference curve, times the wavenumber, independent of the geometry. Our main result gives a bound for the variance, if either the torsion of the curve is nowhere zero or if the curve is planar. Date: September 25, 2018. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) / ERC grant agreements n o 320755 (Z.R.) and n o 335141 (I.W.), and from the Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study (Z.R.).1 By a curve we always mean a parameterized, compact, immersed curve.
In this paper we study eigenfunction statistics for a point scatterer (the Laplacian perturbed by a delta-potential) on a threedimensional flat torus. The eigenfunctions of this operator are the eigenfunctions of the Laplacian which vanish at the scatterer, together with a set of new eigenfunctions (perturbed eigenfunctions). We first show that for a point scatterer on the standard torus all of the perturbed eigenfunctions are uniformly distributed in configuration space. Then we investigate the same problem for a point scatterer on a flat torus with some irrationality conditions, and show uniform distribution in configuration space for almost all of the perturbed eigenfunctions.
A well known result in the theory of uniform distribution modulo one (which goes back to Fejér and Csillag) states that the fractional parts {n α } of the sequence (n α ) n≥1 are uniformly distributed in the unit interval whenever α > 0 is not an integer. For sharpening this knowledge to local statistics, the k-level correlation functions of the sequence ({n α }) n≥1 are of fundamental importance. We prove that for each k ≥ 2, the k-level correlation function R k is Poissonian for almost every α > 4k 2 − 4k − 1.
We study the fine scale L 2 -mass distribution of toral Laplace eigenfunctions with respect to random position, in 2 and 3 dimensions. In 2d, under certain flatness assumptions on the Fourier coefficients and generic restrictions on energy levels, both the asymptotic shape of the variance is determined and the limiting Gaussian law is established, in the optimal Planck-scale regime. In 3d the asymptotic behaviour of the variance is analysed in a more restrictive scenario ("Bourgain's eigenfunctions"). Other than the said precise results, lower and upper bounds are proved for the variance, under more general flatness assumptions on the Fourier coefficients.
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