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On Limit Multiplicities for Spaces of Automorphic Forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Anton Deitmar
Affiliation:
Math. Inst. d. Universität, Im Neuenheimer Feld 288, 69126 Heidelberg, Germany email: anton@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de
Werner Hoffmann
Affiliation:
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Mathematik, Jägerstr. 10/11, 10117 Berlin, Germany email: hoffmann@mathematik.hu-berlin.de
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Let $\Gamma $ be a rank-one arithmetic subgroup of a semisimple Lie group $G$. For fixed $K$-Type, the spectral side of the Selberg trace formula defines a distribution on the space of infinitesimal characters of $G$, whose discrete part encodes the dimensions of the spaces of square-integrable $\Gamma $-automorphic forms. It is shown that this distribution converges to the Plancherel measure of $G$ when $\Gamma $ shrinks to the trivial group in a certain restricted way. The analogous assertion for cocompact lattices $\Gamma $ follows from results of DeGeorge-Wallach and Delorme.

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