Nodal domains of maass forms, II

Amit Ghosh, Andre Reznikov, Peter Sarnak

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Abstract

In Part I we gave a polynomial growth lower-bound for the number of nodal domains of a Hecke-Maass cuspform in a compact part of the modular surface, assuming a Lindelöf hypothesis. That was a consequence of a topological argument and known subconvexity estimates, together with new sharp lower-bound restriction theorems for the Maass forms. This paper deals with the same question for general (compact or not) arithmetic surfaces which have a reflective symmetry. The topological argument is extended and representation theoretic methods are needed for the restriction theorems, together with results of Waldspurger. Various explicit examples are given and studied.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1395-1447
Number of pages53
JournalAmerican Journal of Mathematics
Volume139
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017

Bibliographical note

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© 2017 by Johns Hopkins University Press.

Funding

Manuscript received January 3, 2016; revised July 17, 2017. Research of the first author supported in part by IAS, the College of A&S and the Department of Mathematics of his home university, and the Simons Foundation for a Collaboration Grant; research of the second author supported in part by the Veblen Fund at IAS, the ERC grant 291612 and by the ISF grant 533/14; research of the second and third authors supported in part by a BSF grant; research of the third author supported by NSF grant 1302952. American Journal of Mathematics 139 (2017), 1395–1447. ©c 2017 by Johns Hopkins University Press.

FundersFunder number
National Science Foundation1302952
Simons Foundation
Bloom's Syndrome Foundation
Iowa Academy of Science
Iowa Science Foundation533/14
European Commission291612

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