L^p-Norm Bounds for Automorphic Forms via Spectral Reciprocity

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Authors: Peter J. Humphries, Rizwanur Khan 

Publication date: 10 August 2022

Abstract: Let $g$ be a Hecke-Maass cusp form on the modular surface $$, namely an $L^2$-normalised nonconstant Laplacian eigenfunction on $$ that is additionally a joint eigenfunction of every Hecke operator. We prove the $L^4$-norm bound $|g{|}_{4}l{l}_{varepsilon}lambd{a}_g^{3/304+varepsilon}$, where $lambd{a}_g$ denotes the Laplacian eigenvalue of $g$, which improves upon Sogge's $L^4$-norm bound $|g{|}_{4}lllambd{a}_g^{1/16}$ for Laplacian eigenfunctions on a compact Riemann surface by more than a six-fold power-saving. Interpolating with the sup-norm bound $|g{|}_{infty}l{l}_{varepsilon}lambd{a}_g^{5/24+varepsilon}$ due to Iwaniec and Sarnak, this yields $L^p$-norm bounds for Hecke-Maass cusp forms that are power-saving improvements on Sogge's bounds for all $p>2$. Our paper marks the first improvement of Sogge's result on the modular surface. Via the Watson-Ichino triple product formula, bounds for the $L^4$-norm of $g$ are reduced to bounds for certain mixed moments of $L$-functions. We bound these using two forms of spectral reciprocity. The first is a form of $mathrm{GL}_{3}imesmathrm{GL}_{2}leftrightsquigarrowmathrm{GL}_{4}imesmathrm{GL}_1$ spectral reciprocity, which relates a $mathrm{GL}_2$ moment of $mathrm{GL}_{3}imesmathrm{GL}_2$ Rankin-Selberg $L$-functions to a $mathrm{GL}_1$ moment of $mathrm{GL}_{4}imesmathrm{GL}_1$ Rankin-Selberg $L$-functions; this can be seen as a cuspidal analogue of Motohashi's formula relating the fourth moment of the Riemann zeta function to the third moment of central values of Hecke $L$-functions. The second is a form of $mathrm{GL}_{4}imesmathrm{GL}_{2}leftrightsquigarrowmathrm{GL}_{4}imesmathrm{GL}_2$ spectral reciprocity, which is a cuspidal analogue of a formula of Kuznetsov for the fourth moment of central values of Hecke $L$-functions.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Langlands (L)-functions; one variable Dirichlet series and functional equations (11F66) Other Dirichlet series and zeta functions (11M41) Relations between spectral theory and ergodic theory, e.g., quantum unique ergodicity (58J51) Automorphic forms, one variable (11F12) Quantum chaos (81Q50)

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