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Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego

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Math 211B - Group Actions Seminar

Carsten Petersen

Paderborn University

Quantum ergodicity on the Bruhat-Tits building for PGL(3) in the Benjamini-Schramm limit

Abstract:

Originally, quantum ergodicity concerned equidistribution properties of Laplacian eigenfunctions with large eigenvalue on manifolds for which the geodesic flow is ergodic. More recently, several authors have investigated quantum ergodicity for sequences of spaces which "converge" to their common universal cover and when one restricts to eigenfunctions with eigenvalues in a fixed range. Previous authors have considered this type of quantum ergodicity in the settings of regular graphs, rank one symmetric spaces, and some higher rank symmetric spaces. We prove analogous results in the case when the underlying common universal cover is the Bruhat-Tits building associated to PGL(3, F) where F is a non-archimedean local field. This may be seen as both a higher rank analogue of the regular graphs setting as well as a non-archimedean analogue of the symmetric space setting.

Host: Brandon Seward

February 29, 2024

10:00 AM

Zoom ID 967 4109 3409

Research Areas

Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems

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