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Pre-Conference Lecture Notes

Pre-Conference Lecture notes from Steve Zelditch (pdf format, click on title). These notes include preliminary material,  material to be covered during the lectures, and supplementary lectures. Students are strongly encouraged to familiarize themselves with this material before the conference. Note that the final format of the CBMS lectures may differ from the notes posted here.

Supplementary Materials

1.. Survey paper on Local and Global Analysis of Eigenfunctions on Riemannian Manifolds

2. Method of Stationary Phase

Lecture Notes for CBMS

 0.  Overview

 1.  Wave kernels and propagators on constant curvature spaces

 2.  Homogeneous distributions and generalized functions

 3.  Hadamard-Riesz parametrices for wave kernels (updated)

 4
Symplectic Geometric Notions

 5.  Hamilton-Jacobi Theory

 6. Lagrangian Distributions and FIO's, I

 7. Lagrangian Distributions and FIO's, II. Symbols

 8. Lagrangian Distributions and FIO's, III. Symbol Composition

 9. Semiclassical Oscillatory Integral Operators

10. Phenomenology of Eigenfunctions

11. Estimates on Eigenfunctions

12.  Eigenfunctions and Nodal Sets 

13. Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions on Compact Surfaces of Constant Curvature

14. Boundary Values of Eigenfunctions on Hyperbolic Surfaces

15. Quantum Ergodicity

16. Quantum Ergodic Restriction Theorems

17. Weak-* Limit Problem

18. Lower Bounds on Hypersurface Area of Nodal Sets 

19. Random Wave Models

20.. Local Weyl Laws 

21. Quantum Integrable Systems

22. Lp Norms of Eigenfunctions (joint with Chris Sogge and John Toth)

23. Spectral Rigidity of the Ellipse (joint with Hamid Hezari)