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Sup-norms of eigenfunctions in the level aspect for compact arithmetic surfaces

Number Theory 2019-10-17 v4 Representation Theory Spectral Theory

Abstract

Let DD be an indefinite quaternion division algebra over Q\mathbb{Q}. We approach the problem of bounding the sup-norms of automorphic forms ϕ\phi on D×(A)D^\times(\mathbb{A}) that belong to irreducible automorphic representations and transform via characters of unit groups of orders of DD. We obtain a non-trivial upper bound for ϕ\|\phi\|_\infty in the level aspect that is valid for arbitrary orders. This generalizes and strengthens previously known upper bounds for ϕ\|\phi\|_\infty in the setting of newforms for Eichler orders. In the special case when the index of the order in a maximal order is a squarefull integer NN, our result specializes to ϕπ,ϵN1/3+ϵϕ2\|\phi\|_\infty \ll_{\pi_\infty, \epsilon} N^{1/3 + \epsilon} \|\phi\|_2. A key application of our result is to automorphic forms ϕ\phi which correspond at the ramified primes to either minimal vectors (in the sense of Hu-Nelson-Saha), or pp-adic microlocal lifts (in the sense of Nelson). For such forms, our bound specializes to ϕϵC16+ϵϕ2\| \phi\|_\infty \ll_{\epsilon} C^{\frac16 + \epsilon}\|\phi\|_2 where CC is the conductor of the representation π\pi generated by ϕ\phi. This improves upon the previously known local bound ϕλ,ϵC14+ϵϕ2\|\phi\|_\infty \ll_{\lambda, \epsilon} C^{\frac14 + \epsilon}\|\phi\|_2 in these cases.

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@article{arxiv.1812.01572,
  title  = {Sup-norms of eigenfunctions in the level aspect for compact arithmetic surfaces},
  author = {Abhishek Saha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.01572},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

To appear in Math. Ann. Several expository improvements made in this version after taking into account suggestions of the referee. In particular the key counting argument has been re-framed in terms of matrix manipulations. 30 pages

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