Spectral degeneration of hyperboloc Riemann surfaces (Q1312148)

Given a degenerating family of Riemann surfaces with their canonical hyperbolic metric, the author works out in detail the spectral degeneration of the collars around the pinching geodesics. Using the spectral degeneration of the pinching collars, the author shows the eigenvalues of the family become dense at every point of the continuous spectrum \([1/4,\infty)\) and gives upper and lower bounds for the rate of the clustering. Furthermore, the author shows that the Eisenstein series, which are generalized eigenfunctions of the limits arise as limits of the family.