Spectral Means Of Central Values Of Automorphic L Functions For Gl 2

Spectral Means of Central Values of Automorphic L-Functions for GL(2)

Starting with Green's functions on adele points of considered over a totally real number field, the author elaborates an explicit version of the relative trace formula, whose spectral side encodes the informaton on period integrals of cuspidal waveforms along a maximal split torus. As an application, he proves two kinds of asymptotic mean formula for certain central -values attached to cuspidal waveforms with square-free level.

Spectral Means of Central Values of Automorphic L-functions for GL(2)

Period Functions for Maass Wave Forms and Cohomology

The authors construct explicit isomorphisms between spaces of Maass wave forms and cohomology groups for discrete cofinite groups Γ⊂PSL2(R). In the case that Γ is the modular group PSL2(Z) this gives a cohomological framework for the results in Period functions for Maass wave forms. I, of J. Lewis and D. Zagier in Ann. Math. 153 (2001), 191-258, where a bijection was given between cuspidal Maass forms and period functions. The authors introduce the concepts of mixed parabolic cohomology group and semi-analytic vectors in principal series representation. This enables them to describe cohomology groups isomorphic to spaces of Maass cusp forms, spaces spanned by residues of Eisenstein series, and spaces of all Γ-invariant eigenfunctions of the Laplace operator. For spaces of Maass cusp forms the authors also describe isomorphisms to parabolic cohomology groups with smooth coefficients and standard cohomology groups with distribution coefficients. They use the latter correspondence to relate the Petersson scalar product to the cup product in cohomology.