## Tohoku Mathematical Journal

### Splitting density for lifting about discrete groups

#### Abstract

We study splitting densities of primitive elements of a discrete subgroup of a connected non-compact semisimple Lie group of real rank one with finite center in another larger such discrete subgroup. When the corresponding cover of such a locally symmetric negatively curved Riemannian manifold is regular, the densities can be easily obtained from the results due to Sarnak or Sunada. Our main interest is a case where the covering is not necessarily regular. Specifically, for the case of the modular group and its congruence subgroups, we determine the splitting densities explicitly. As an application, we study analytic properties of the zeta function defined by the Euler product over elements consisting of all primitive elements which satisfy a certain splitting law for a given lifting.

#### Article information

Source
Tohoku Math. J. (2) Volume 59, Number 4 (2007), 527-545.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 6 January 2008

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.tmj/1199649873

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.2748/tmj/1199649873

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2404204

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1148.11026

#### Citation

Hashimoto, Yasufumi; Wakayama, Masato. Splitting density for lifting about discrete groups. Tohoku Math. J. (2) 59 (2007), no. 4, 527--545. doi:10.2748/tmj/1199649873. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.tmj/1199649873.

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