On the analytic continuation of rank one Eisenstein series
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: On the analytic continuation of rank one Eisenstein series
zbMATH Open document ID: 0870.11032
DOI: 10.1007/BF02249264
author: Werner Müller
published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA
publication date: 1997-07-31T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/58237
review text: The analytic extension of Eisenstein series is a basic tool for the spectral analysis of the Laplace-Beltrami operator \(\Delta_X\) on a locally symmetric space \(X\). In the case of Riemann surfaces of finite area but non compact (as \(\mathbb{H}^2/PSL_2(\mathbb{Z})\)) and more generally for locally symmetric spaces of \(\mathbb{Q}\)-rank one, \textit{A. Selberg} [Collected papers. Vol. 1. Springer-Verlag (1989; Zbl 0675.10001)] proved their meromorphy on the entire complex plane. \textit{L. D. Faddeev} [Tr. Mosk. Mat. O.-va 17, 323-350 (1967; Zbl 0201.41601)] and \textit{Y. Colin de Verdière} [C. R. Acad. Sci., Paris, Ser. I 293, 361-363 (1981; Zbl 0478.30035)] gave other proofs related to scattering theory. The author stresses here an approach based on the meromorphic extension of the resolvent function \(R_X(s)=(\Delta_X-s(1-s))^{-1}\) defined for Re \(s>1\). This \(L^2\)-resolvent function \(R_X(s)\) cannot be extended through the critical line Re \(s=1/2\) (which projects on the continuous spectrum in the spectral parameter \(\lambda=s(1-s)\)). However, by introducing the weighted spaces \(L^2_\delta(X)=\{f\in L^2_{\text{loc}}(X)\), \(e^{\delta d(x_0,\cdot)}f\in L^2(X)\},\) the author proves that the function \(R_X\) as a function with values in the bounded operators from \(L^2_\delta(X)\) into \(L^2_{-\delta}(X)\) admits an extension to the whole complex plane if \(\delta>0\). The meromorphic extension for \(R_X\) comes from Fredholm theory arguments applied to a parametrix constructed by gluing compact resolvents (related to the compact part of \(X\) and cuspidal part of \(L^2(X)\)) and resolvents associated to each cusp of \(X\): because of the geometry, the Laplacian \(\Delta_X\) acts there as the Laplacian on the real line, for which the analysis is quite easy. The meromorphy of Eisenstein series follows immediately from the meromorphy of the resolvent. Such meromorphic extension results between weighted spaces are quite common in Schrödinger scattering t…
reviewed by: Laurent Guillopé
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11F72
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 58J50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 30B40
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 30F35
zbMATH DE Number: 912464
zbMATH Keywords: analytic extension of Eisenstein series
zbMATH Keywords: spectral analysis
zbMATH Keywords: Laplace-Beltrami operator
zbMATH Keywords: meromorphy
zbMATH Keywords: Schrödinger scattering theory
zbMATH Keywords: resolvent function
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