# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

October  2012, 6(4): 563-596. doi: 10.3934/jmd.2012.6.563

## A dynamical approach to Maass cusp forms

 1 Mathematisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Bunsenstr. 3–5, 37073 Göttingen, Germany

Received  September 2012 Published  January 2013

For nonuniform cofinite Fuchsian groups $\Gamma$ that satisfy a certain additional geometric condition, we show that the Maass cusp forms for $\Gamma$ are isomorphic to $1$-eigenfunctions of a finite-term transfer operator. The isomorphism is constructive.
Citation: Anke D. Pohl. A dynamical approach to Maass cusp forms. Journal of Modern Dynamics, 2012, 6 (4) : 563-596. doi: 10.3934/jmd.2012.6.563
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Pohl, Period functions for Hecke triangle groups, and the Selberg zeta function as a Fredholm determinant,, Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, (2011).   Google Scholar [24] T. Morita, Markov systems and transfer operators associated with cofinite Fuchsian groups,, Ergodic Theory Dynam. Systems, 17 (1997), 1147.  doi: 10.1017/S014338579708632X.  Google Scholar [25] R. S. Phillips and P. Sarnak, On cusp forms for co-finite subgroups of $PSL(2,\mathbf R)$,, Invent. Math., 80 (1985), 339.  doi: 10.1007/BF01388610.  Google Scholar [26] _____, The Weyl theorem and the deformation of discrete groups,, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 38 (1985), 853.   Google Scholar [27] A. Pohl, Odd and even Maass cusp forms for Hecke triangle groups, and the billiard flow,, in preparation., ().   Google Scholar [28] _____, Symbolic dynamics for the geodesic flow on two-dimensional hyperbolic good orbifolds,, \arXiv{1008.0367}, (2010).   Google Scholar [29] _____, Period functions for Maass cusp forms for $\Gamma_0(p)$: A transfer operator approach,, International Mathematics Research Notices, (2012).  doi: 10.1093/imrn/rns146.  Google Scholar [30] M. Pollicott, Some applications of thermodynamic formalism to manifolds with constant negative curvature,, Adv. in Math., 85 (1991), 161.  doi: 10.1016/0001-8708(91)90054-B.  Google Scholar [31] D. Ruelle, "Dynamical Zeta Functions for Piecewise Monotone Maps of the Interval,", CRM Monograph Series, 4 (1994).   Google Scholar [32] _____, Dynamical zeta functions and transfer operators,, Notices Amer. Math. Soc., 49 (2002), 887.   Google Scholar [33] C. Series, The modular surface and continued fractions,, J. London Math. Soc. (2), 31 (1985), 69.  doi: 10.1112/jlms/s2-31.1.69.  Google Scholar
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