TY - JOUR
T1 - Semiclassical second microlocal propagation of regularity and integrable systems
AU - Vasy, András
AU - Wunsch, Jared
N1 - Funding Information:
∗The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support for this project from the National Science Foundation, the first under grant DMS-0201092, and the second under grant DMS-0700318. The authors thank an anonymous referee for comments that improved the manuscript.
PY - 2009/9
Y1 - 2009/9
N2 - We develop a second-microlocal calculus of pseudodifferential operators in the semiclassical setting. These operators test for Lagrangian regularity of semiclassical families of distributions on a manifold X with respect to a Lagrangian submanifold of T*X. The construction of the calculus, closely analogous to one performed by Bony in the setting of homogeneous Lagrangians, proceeds via the consideration of a model case, that of the zero section of T*Rn, and conjugation by appropriate Fourier integral operators. We prove a propagation theorem for the associated wavefront set analogous to Hörmander's theorem for operators of real principal type. As an application, we consider the propagation of Lagrangian regularity on invariant tori for quasimodes (e.g., eigenfunctions) of an operator with completely integrable classical hamiltonian. We prove a secondary propagation result for second wavefront set which implies that even in the (extreme) case of Lagrangian tori with all frequencies rational, provided a nondegeneracy assumption holds, Lagrangian regularity either spreads to fill out a whole torus or holds nowhere locally on it.
AB - We develop a second-microlocal calculus of pseudodifferential operators in the semiclassical setting. These operators test for Lagrangian regularity of semiclassical families of distributions on a manifold X with respect to a Lagrangian submanifold of T*X. The construction of the calculus, closely analogous to one performed by Bony in the setting of homogeneous Lagrangians, proceeds via the consideration of a model case, that of the zero section of T*Rn, and conjugation by appropriate Fourier integral operators. We prove a propagation theorem for the associated wavefront set analogous to Hörmander's theorem for operators of real principal type. As an application, we consider the propagation of Lagrangian regularity on invariant tori for quasimodes (e.g., eigenfunctions) of an operator with completely integrable classical hamiltonian. We prove a secondary propagation result for second wavefront set which implies that even in the (extreme) case of Lagrangian tori with all frequencies rational, provided a nondegeneracy assumption holds, Lagrangian regularity either spreads to fill out a whole torus or holds nowhere locally on it.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11854-009-0020-5
DO - 10.1007/s11854-009-0020-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:70349618138
SN - 0021-7670
VL - 108
SP - 119
EP - 157
JO - Journal d'Analyse Mathematique
JF - Journal d'Analyse Mathematique
IS - 1
ER -