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The Weyl law of the Laplacian on the flat torus \({\mathbb {T}}^n\) is concerning the number of eigenvalues \(\le \lambda ^2\), which is equivalent to counting the lattice points inside the ball of radius \(\lambda \) in \({\mathbb {R}}^n\). The leading term in the Weyl law is \(c_n\lambda ^n\), while the sharp error term \(O(\lambda ^{n-2})\) is only known in dimension \(n\ge 5\). Determining the sharp error term in lower dimensions is a famous open problem (e.g. Gauss circle problem). In this paper, we show that under a type of singular perturbations one can obtain the pointwise Weyl law with a sharp error term in any dimensions. This result establishes the sharpness of the general theorems for the Schrödinger operators \(H_V=-\Delta _{g}+V\) in the previous work (Huang and Zhang (Adv Math, arXiv:2103.05531)) of the authors, and extends the 3-dimensional results of Frank and Sabin (Sharp Weyl laws with singular potentials. arXiv:2007.04284) to any dimensions by using a different approach. Our approach is a combination of Fourier analysis techniques on the flat torus, Li–Yau’s heat kernel estimates, Blair–Sire–Sogge’s eigenfunction estimates, and Duhamel’s principle for the wave equation.
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The authors would like to thank Allan Greenleaf, Christopher Sogge, Yannick Sire, Rupert L. Frank and Julien Sabin for their suggestions and comments. The authors also thank the anonymous referees for very thorough and tremendously helpful reports. The authors are both partially supported by the AMS-Simons Travel Grants.
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Huang, X., Zhang, C. Sharp Pointwise Weyl Laws for Schrödinger Operators with Singular Potentials on Flat Tori. Commun. Math. Phys. 401, 1063–1125 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-023-04665-1
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