eprintid: 10203381
rev_number: 12
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datestamp: 2025-02-28 13:59:26
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type: thesis
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creators_name: Voskou, Marios
title: Distributional Results for Geodesic Segments in the Hyperbolic Plane
ispublished: unpub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B04
divisions: C06
divisions: F59
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abstract: For Γ a cofinite Fuchsian group, and l a fixed closed geodesic, we study refined
asymptotics of the number of images of l over Γ that have a distance from l less than or equal to X. In particular, we partition the images into four cases, according to orientation, and prove that they all contribute asymptotically one-fourth of the total. This was originally studied by A. Good. For Γ_1 the stabilizer of l, this is equivalent to counting the number of double cosets in Γ_1\Γ/Γ_1 with prescribed signs for its entries, according to a certain growth parameter. We achieve this by developing new modified relative trace formulae, as well as bounds for hyperbolic periods in mean square.  We give a new concrete proof of the error bound O(X^(2/3)) that appears in the works of Good and Hejhal. Furthermore, we prove a new bound O(X^(1/2) logX) for the mean square of the error. To that end, we obtain large sieve inequalities
with weights the hyperbolic periods of Maaß forms of even weight. This is inspired by work of Chamizo, who proved a large sieve inequality with weights the values of Maaß forms of weight 0. We also prove Ω results, supporting the conjectural best error term O_ε(X^(1/2+ε))$. For particular arithmetic groups, we provide interpretations in terms of correlation sums of the number of ideals of norm at most X in associated number fields, generalizing previous examples due to Hejhal.
date: 2025-01-28
date_type: published
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
thesis_class: doctoral_open
thesis_award: Ph.D
language: eng
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lyricists_name: Voskou, Marios
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actors_name: Voskou, Marios
actors_id: MVOSK16
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
pagerange: 1-136
pages: 136
institution: UCL (University College London)
department: Mathematics
thesis_type: Doctoral
citation:        Voskou, Marios;      (2025)    Distributional Results for Geodesic Segments in the Hyperbolic Plane.                   Doctoral thesis  (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).     Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10203381/1/Thesis_Final.pdf