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Salem numbers and the spectrum of hyperbolic surfaces

Number Theory 2016-12-20 v1 Spectral Theory

Abstract

We give a reformulation of Salem's conjecture about the absence of Salem numbers near one in terms of a uniform spectral gap for certain arithmetic hyperbolic surfaces.

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@article{arxiv.1612.05935,
  title  = {Salem numbers and the spectrum of hyperbolic surfaces},
  author = {Emmanuel Breuillard and Bertrand Deroin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.05935},
  year   = {2016}
}

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13 pages