Front Modular surface Spectral theory Geodesics and coding Transfer operator Connection to spectral theory Conclusions Front page The transfer operator approach to “quantum chaos” Classical mechanics and the Laplace-Beltrami operator on PSL (Z) H 2 \ Tobias M¨uhlenbruch Joint work with D. Mayer and F. Str¨omberg Institut f¨ur Mathematik TU Clausthal
[email protected] 22 January 2009, Fernuniversit¨at in Hagen Front Modular surface Spectral theory Geodesics and coding Transfer operator Connection to spectral theory Conclusions Outline of the presentation 1 Modular surface 2 Spectral theory 3 Geodesics and coding 4 Transfer operator 5 Connection to spectral theory 6 Conclusions Front Modular surface Spectral theory Geodesics and coding Transfer operator Connection to spectral theory Conclusions PSL Z The full modular group 2( ) Let PSL2(Z) be the full modular group PSL (Z)= S, T (ST )3 =1 = SL (Z) mod 1 2 h | i 2 {± } 0 1 1 1 1 0 with S = − , T = and 1 = . 1 0 0 1 0 1 a b az+b if z C, M¨obius transformations: z = cz+d ∈ c d a if z = . c ∞ Three orbits: the upper halfplane H = x + iy; y > 0 , the 1 { } projective real line PR and the lower half plane. z , z are PSL (Z)-equivalent if M PSL (Z) with 1 2 2 ∃ ∈ 2 M z1 = z2. The full modular group PSL2(Z) is generated by 1 translation T : z z + 1 and inversion S : z − . 7→ 7→ z (Closed) fundamental domain = z H; z 1, Re(z) 1 . F ∈ | |≥ | |≤ 2 Front Modular surface Spectral theory Geodesics and coding Transfer operator Connection to spectral theory Conclusions PSL Z H The modular surface 2( )\ The upper half plane H = x + iy; y > 0 can be viewed as a hyperbolic plane with constant{ negative} curvature 1.