Lifting properties of prime geodesics

Structure of modular groups and generalizations; arithmetic groups (11F06) Unimodular groups, congruence subgroups (group-theoretic aspects) (20H05) Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

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The author continues the study begun by Peter Sarnak and Jeffrey Stopple of prime geodesics on \(\Gamma\backslash H\), \(\Gamma\) the modular group. Now \(\Gamma\) is allowed to be a Fuchsian group whose matrix entries lie in the ring of integers \(O_K\) of a number field \(K\). There is a one-to-one correspondence between the prime geodesics \(P\) on \(\Gamma\backslash H\) and the primitive hyperbolic conjugacy classes \(\{\gamma\}\) in \(\Gamma\). An eigenvalue \(\varepsilon\) of an element of \(\{\gamma\}\) determines a quadratic extension field \(K(\varepsilon)\) of \(K\). On the other hand, a prime ideal \(Q\) of \(O_K\) determines covering surfaces of \(\Gamma\backslash H\). A Frobenius map relates the lifting of \(P\) to the splitting of \(Q\) in \(K(\varepsilon)\).

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