Asymptotique de la norme \(L^2\) d'un cycle géodésique dans les revêtements de congruence d'une variété hyperbolique arithmétique. (The asymptotics of the \(L^2\) norm of a geodesic cycle in the congruence tower above a hyperbolic arithmetic variety) (Q1849659)

The article under review measures the contribution of geodesic cycles in a finite covering of a hyperbolic arithmetic manifold \(M\), in the sense of \textit{S. K. Yeung} [Duke Math. J. 73, 201-226 (1994; Zbl 0818.22007)] and \textit{W. Lück} [Geom. Funct. Anal. 4, 455-481 (1994; Zbl 0853.57021)]. The main result generalises \textit{J. J. Millson}'s celebrated theorem, on the Betti number of finite coverings of standard compact arithmetic hyperbolic manifolds [Ann. Math. (2) 104, 235-247 (1976; Zbl 0364.53020)]. In the author's words: ``we obtain an explicit value for the growth rate of \dots the lifts of a codimension one geodesic cycle in the congruence tower above \(M\)''. The article under review is clearly written and provides a new way of calculating non trivial homology classes in certain locally symmetric spaces.