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SPECTRAL THEORY OF AUTOMORPHIC FORMS: A VERY BRIEF INTRODUCTION

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Equidistribution in Number Theory, An Introduction

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These are the notes to accompany some lectures delivered at the 2005 NATO ASI summer school in Montréal. They constitute an introduction to the spectral theory of automorphic forms. The viewpoint is slightly nonstandard, in that we present first the “group representation” viewpoint and later descend to the upper-half plane.

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  1. Courant Institute, Courant

    A. Venkatesh

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  1. University of Montréal, QC,, Canada

    Andrew Granville

  2. Tel-Aviv University, Israel

    Zeév Rudnick

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Venkatesh, A. (2007). SPECTRAL THEORY OF AUTOMORPHIC FORMS: A VERY BRIEF INTRODUCTION. In: Granville, A., Rudnick, Z. (eds) Equidistribution in Number Theory, An Introduction. NATO Science Series, vol 237. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5404-4_12

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