Curvature and harmonic analysis on compact manifolds

Abstract

We discuss problems that relate curvature and concentration properties of eigenfunctions and quasimodes on compact boundaryless Riemannian manifolds. These include new sharp $L^q$-estimates, $q\in (2,q_c]$, $q_c=2(n+1)/(n-1)$, of log-quasimodes that characterize compact connected space forms in terms of the growth rate of $L^q$-norms of such quasimode for these relatively small Lebesgue exponents $q$. No such characterization is possible for any exponent $q> q_c$.