Semiclassical Lp Estimates for Quasimodes on Submanifolds
Abstract
Motivated by the desire to understand classical-quantum correspondences, we study concentration phenomena of approximate eigenfunctions of a semiclassical pseudodifferential operator $P(h)$. Such eigenfunctions appear as steady state solutions of quantum systems. Here we think of $h$ as being a small parameter such that $h^{2}$ is inversely proportional to the energy of such a system. As we understand classical mechanics to be the high energy (or small $h$) limit of quantum mechanics we expect the behaviour of eigenfunctions $u(h)$ for small $h$ to be related to properties of the associated classical system. In particular we study the connection between the classical flow and the quantum concentration properties. ¶ ...