Dynamics of geodesics, and Maass cusp forms (Q2070048)

Summary: The correspondence principle in physics between quantum mechanics and classical mechanics suggests deep relations between spectral and geometric entities of Riemannian manifolds. We survey -- in a way intended to be accessible to a wide audience of mathematicians -- a mathematically rigorous instance of such a relation that emerged in recent years, showing a dynamical interpretation of certain Laplace eigenfunctions of hyperbolic surfaces.