Absence of principal eigenvalues for higher rank locally symmetric spaces

DOI10.1007/S00220-023-04819-1MaRDI QIDQ6076986zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Tobias Weich, Lasse L. Wolf

Publication date 17 October 2023

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.03167

zbMATH Keywords

\(L^2\)-eigenvalueexceptional eigenvaluesjoint spectrumlocally symmetric spaceprincipal eigenvalueswandering point

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modular and automorphic functions (11F03) Fuchsian groups and automorphic functions (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F35) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50)

Abstract: Given a geometrically finite hyperbolic surface of infinite volume it is a classical result of Patterson that the positive Laplace-Beltrami operator has no $L^2$-eigenvalues $geq1/4$. In this article we prove a generalization of this result for the joint $L^2$-eigenvalues of the algebra of commuting differential operators on Riemannian locally symmetric spaces $$ of higher rank. We derive dynamical assumptions on the $Gamma$-action on the geodesic and the Satake compactifications which imply the absence of the corresponding principal eigenvalues. A large class of examples fulfilling these assumptions are the non-compact quotients by Anosov subgroups.

Review text

Selberg's eigenvalue conjecture claims the absence of exceptional (also called principal) eigenvalues associated to any congruence subgroup of \(\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb Z)\). More precisely, \(\lambda_1(\Gamma\backslash \mathbb H^2)\geq \frac{1}{4}\), where \(\mathbb H^2\) denotes the hyperbolic plane, \(\Gamma\) is a congruence subgroup of \(\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb Z)\), and \(\lambda_1(\Gamma\backslash \mathbb H^2)\) denotes the smallest eigenvalue of the Laplace-Beltrami operator associated to the (non-compact and finite-volume) hyperbolic surface \(\Gamma\backslash \mathbb H^2\). It has been of great interest to study several kind of generalizations, for instance, when \(\Gamma\) is cocompact, \(\mathbb H^2\) replaced by a non-compact symmetric space, infinite-volume locally symmetric spaces, etc. This article considers the \(L^2\)-eigenvalues with respect to the whole algebra of invariant differential operators on a locally symmetric space of non-compact type. More precisely, for a symmetric space of non-compact type \(G/K\) and a discrete torsion-free subgroup \(\Gamma\) of \(G\), there are no principal joint \(L^2\)-eigenvalues on \(\Gamma\backslash G/K\) under certain topological assumption. The mentioned topological assumptions is implied by the condition \(\operatorname{vol}(\Gamma\backslash \mathbb H^2)=\infty\) when \(G/K=\mathbb H^2\) and \(\Gamma\) is a geometrically finite subgroup of \(\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb R)\). Therefore, the main result of the paper under review extends a classical result by \textit{S. J. Patterson} [Compos. Math. 31, 83--107 (1975; Zbl 0321.30020)] that proves the non-existence of exceptional eigenvalues under the conditions mentioned above.

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