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Let X be a compact d-dimensional manifold and tex2html_wrap_inline35 a first order positive self-adjoint elliptic pseudodifferential operator. Let tex2html_wrap_inline37 , be the eigenvalues of Q with corresponding eigenfunctions tex2html_wrap_inline41 , and let tex2html_wrap_inline43 be the orthogonal projection of tex2html_wrap_inline45 onto the space spanned by tex2html_wrap_inline47 . Let B be a zero order pseudodifferential operator on X. We are interested in asymptotic trace formulas as tex2html_wrap_inline53 :

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for tex2html_wrap_inline57 and

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In this talk, I will describe the following general results, which I obtained recently in joint work with Victor Guillemin.

Case 1. When the set of closed bicharacteristics under the Hamiltonian flow generated by tex2html_wrap_inline61 has measure zero, we obtain the first 2 terms in (*).

Case 2. (Zoll Case) When all bicharacteristics of the Hamiltonian flow generated by tex2html_wrap_inline61 are closed of length tex2html_wrap_inline65 , the eigenvalues of Q clump together in thin bands which, after a translation, can be centered at the points tex2html_wrap_inline69 , tex2html_wrap_inline71 . We obtain the complete asymptotics (*), as tex2html_wrap_inline53 through the integer values.





Richard B. Melrose
Fri Nov 22 22:52:44 EST 1996