Riemann surfaces with large first eigenvalue

DOI10.1007/BF02790263MaRDI QIDQ5941779zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robert Brooks, Eran Makover

Publication date 21 March 2002

Published in Journal d'Analyse Mathématique (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02790263

zbMATH Keywords

Ahlfors-Schwarz lemmaLaplace-Beltrami operatorSelberg conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectral theory; trace formulas (e.g., that of Selberg) (11F72) Compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization (30F10) Conformal metrics (hyperbolic, Poincaré, distance functions) (30F45) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50)

Review text

In this paper the authors show how to construct new Riemann surfaces with large first eigenvalues (with respect to the hyperbolic metric). They start with the principal congruence subgroups \(\Gamma(k)\) of the modular group where one knows that \(C=\inf (\lambda_1 (\Gamma(k) \setminus{\mathbf H}) \geq 3/16>0\) (indeed one now has better estimates than Selberg's estimate \(3/16)\). The method, which is based on geometrical constructions combined with analytical comparisons (based on the Ahlfors-Schwarz Lemma) yields a large number of Riemann surfaces with prescribed genus (and, to a certain extent, also the number of punctures) for which the corresponding \(\lambda_1\) is almost as large as \(C\).

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