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Prime Geodesic Theorem in the 3-dimensional Hyperbolic Space

Number Theory 2018-08-21 v2

Abstract

For Γ\Gamma a cofinite Kleinian group acting on H3\mathbb{H}^3, we study the Prime Geodesic Theorem on M=Γ\H3M=\Gamma \backslash \mathbb{H}^3, which asks about the asymptotic behaviour of lengths of primitive closed geodesics (prime geodesics) on MM. Let EΓ(X)E_{\Gamma}(X) be the error in the counting of prime geodesics with length at most logX\log X. For the Picard manifold, Γ=PSL(2,Z[i])\Gamma=\mathrm{PSL}(2,\mathbb{Z}[i]), we improve the classical bound of Sarnak, EΓ(X)=O(X5/3+ϵ)E_{\Gamma}(X)=O(X^{5/3+\epsilon}), to EΓ(X)=O(X13/8+ϵ)E_{\Gamma}(X)=O(X^{13/8+\epsilon}). In the process we obtain a mean subconvexity estimate for the Rankin-Selberg LL-function attached to Maass-Hecke cusp forms. We also investigate the second moment of EΓ(X)E_{\Gamma}(X) for a general cofinite group Γ\Gamma, and show that it is bounded by O(X16/5+ϵ)O(X^{16/5+\epsilon}).

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@article{arxiv.1712.00880,
  title  = {Prime Geodesic Theorem in the 3-dimensional Hyperbolic Space},
  author = {Olga Balkanova and Dimitrios Chatzakos and Giacomo Cherubini and Dmitry Frolenkov and Niko Laaksonen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.00880},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Corrected proof of Theorem 3.3 (with a weaker bound), added two authors, 18 pages

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