A short proof of a sharp Weyl law for the special orthogonal group

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Abstract: We give a short proof of a strong form of Weyl's law for extSO(N) using well known facts of the theory of modular forms. The exponent of the error term is sharp when the rank is at least~4. We also discuss the cases with smaller rank improving previous results.


Let \(M\) be a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension \(d\) and -\(\Delta\) the Laplace-Beltrami operator on \(M\). The spectrum of \(-\Delta\) is discrete with non-negative eigenvalues. Let \({\mathcal N}(\lambda)\) be the number of eigenvalues that are less or equal than a real number \(\lambda\) counted with their multiplicities. Weyl's law describes the asymptotic behavior of \({\mathcal N}(\lambda)\) as follows: \[\lim_{\lambda\rightarrow +\infty}\lambda^{-d/2}{\mathcal N}(\lambda)=C_d\] where \(\displaystyle{C_d:=\frac{2\text{Vol}(M)}{d(4\pi)^{d/2}\Gamma(d/2)}}\), \(\text{Vol}(M):=\int_M\omega\) and \(\omega\) is the Riemannian volume form. In the paper under review, the authors give a short and elementary proof of the Weyl's law in the case when \(M\) is the special orthogonal (compact Lie) group \(SO(N)\), where \(N\) is a positive integer and \(d=N(N-1)/2\) (Theorem 1.1): \[{\mathcal N}(\lambda)-C_d\lambda^{d/2}=\begin{cases}O(\lambda^{d/2-1})\text{ if }[N/2]>4\\ O(\lambda^{d/2-1}\log \lambda)\text{ if }[N/2]=4\end{cases} \] where \([N/2]\) denotes the greatest integer in \(N/2\) (i.e the rank of \(SO(N)\)).











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