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Let $A$ be an expanding endomorphism on the torus ${\Bbb T}^d = {\Bbb R}^d /{\Bbb Z}^d$ with its smallest eigenvalue $\lambda >1$. Consider the ergodic system $({\Bbb T}^d, A, \mu)$ where $\mu$ is Haar measure. We prove that the correlation…

The main result of this paper is a bound on the distance between the distribution of an eigenfunction of the Laplacian on a compact Riemannian manifold and the Gaussian distribution. If $X$ is a random point on a manifold $M$ and $f$ is an…

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Given a compact Riemannian manifold (M n , g) with boundary $\partial$M , we give an estimate for the quotient $\partial$M f d$\mu$ g M f d$\mu$ g , where f is a smooth positive function defined on M that satisfies some inequality involving…

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In this paper, for an operator defined by the action of an M-th order differential operator with rational-type coefficients on the function space L_k^2(R):={f: measurable | \|f\|_k <\infty} with norm \|f\|_k^2:= \int |f(x)|^2 (x^2+1)^k dx…

We prove almost sharp upper bounds for the $L^p$ norms of eigenfunctions of the full ring of invariant differential operators on a compact locally symmetric space, as well as their restrictions to maximal flat subspaces. Our proof combines…

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We open a new perspective on the sup-norm problem and propose a version for non-spherical Maass forms when the maximal compact K is non-abelian and the dimension of the K-type gets large. We solve this problem for an arithmetic quotient of…

Let (X,g) be a metrically complete, simply connected Riemannian manifold with bounded geometry and pinched negative curvature, i.e. there are constants a>b>0 such that -a^2<K<-b^2 for all sectional curvatures K. Here bounded geometry is…

Let $(\Sigma,g)$ be a closed Riemannian surface, $W^{1,2}(\Sigma,g)$ be the usual Sobolev space, $\textbf{G}$ be a finite isometric group acting on $(\Sigma,g)$, and $\mathscr{H}_\textbf{G}$ be a function space including all functions $u\in…

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If $(M,g)$ is a compact Riemannian surface then the integrals of $L^2(M)$-normalized eigenfunctions $e_j$ over geodesic segments of fixed length are uniformly bounded. Also, if $(M,g)$ has negative curvature and $\gamma(t)$ is a geodesic…