Dirichlet series constructed from periods of automorphic forms (Q897496)

Let \(k\) be a fixed number, \(\Gamma\) be a co-finite torsion-free discrete subgroup of \(\mathrm{SL}(2, \mathbb{R})\). Suppose that \(g\) is a weight \(4k\) holomorphic cusp form for \(\Gamma\) and \(\gamma\) is a hyperbolic element in \(\Gamma\). For element \(\gamma=\binom{a \;b}{c \;d} \in \mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{R})\), let \(Q_\gamma(z)=cz^2+(d-a)z-b\). Then the period integral of \(g\) over the closed geodesic associated to \(\gamma\) is defined by \[ \alpha_{2k}(\gamma,g)=\int_{z_0}^{\gamma z_0}Q_\gamma(z)^{2k-1}g(z)\,dz. \] Now denote by \({\text{Prim}}(\Gamma)\) the set of primitive hyperbolic conjugacy classes of \(\Gamma\), and by \(\ell(\gamma)\) the length of the closed geodesic associated to \(\gamma\), and \(N(\gamma)=\exp(\ell(\gamma))\). The Dirichlet series of Selberg type \(\Xi_\Gamma(s;g)\), for \(g \in S_{4k}(\Gamma)\), and \(s \in \mathbb{C}\), is defined by \[ \Xi_\Gamma(s;g):=\sum_{\gamma \in {\text{Prim}}(\Gamma)}\beta_{2k}(\gamma,g)\frac{N(\gamma)^{-s}}{1-N(\gamma)^{-s}},\quad \mathrm{Re} (s) >1, \] where \[ \beta_{2k}(\gamma,g)=\frac{{\overline{\alpha_{2k}(\gamma,g)}}}{2^{6k-3}\sinh^{2k-1}(\ell(\gamma)/2) }. \] In this paper, it is shown that the function \(\Xi_\Gamma(s;g)\) has an analytic continuation as a meromorphic function on the whole complex plane. Also, exact values of residues at the points \(s=\frac{1}{2}-j\pm ir_n\), \(j \in \{0,1\}\), \(n \geq 1\), and \(s=\frac{1}{2}-j\pm ir_n\), \(j \geq 0\), \(n \geq 1\), are given.