Nicolas Burq

Nicolas Burq, Semyon Dyatlov, Rachel Ward et al.

Using tools from semiclassical analysis, we give weighted L^\infty estimates for eigenfunctions of strictly convex surfaces of revolution. These estimates give rise to new sampling techniques and provide improved bounds on the number of samples necessary for recovering sparse eigenfunction expansions on surfaces of revolution. On the sphere, our estimates imply that any function having an s-sparse expansion in the first N spherical harmonics can be efficiently recovered from its values at m > s N^(1/6) log^4(N) sampling points.

Nicolas Burq, Maciej Zworski

A well known result of Jaffard states that an arbitrary region on a torus controls, in the L2 sense, solutions of the free stationary and dynamical Schroedinger equations. In this note we show that the same result is valid in the presence of a smooth time-independent potential. The methods apply to continuous potentials as well and we conjecture that the L2 control is valid for any bounded time dependent potential.