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A random cover of a compact hyperbolic surface has relative spectral gap 3/16 - ϵ

Magee, Michael; Naud, Frédéric; Puder, Doron

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Frédéric Naud

Doron Puder



Abstract

Let X be a compact connected hyperbolic surface, that is, a closed connected orientable smooth surface with a Riemannian metric of constant curvature −1. For each n ∈ N, let Xn be a random degree-n cover of X sampled uniformly from all degree-n Riemannian covering spaces of X. An eigenvalue of X or Xn is an eigenvalue of the associated Laplacian operator ΔX or ΔXn. We say that an eigenvalue of Xn is new if it occurs with greater multiplicity than in X. We prove that for any ε > 0, with probability tending to 1 as n → ∞, there are no new eigenvalues of Xn below 3 16 − ε. We conjecture that the same result holds with 3 16 replaced by 1 4 .

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Magee, M., Naud, F., & Puder, D. (2022). A random cover of a compact hyperbolic surface has relative spectral gap 3/16 - ϵ. Geometric And Functional Analysis, 32(3), 595-661. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00039-022-00602-x

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Mar 15, 2022
Online Publication Date May 17, 2022
Publication Date 2022-06
Deposit Date Apr 20, 2020
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Geometric and Functional Analysis
Print ISSN 1016-443X
Electronic ISSN 1420-8970
Publisher Springer
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 32
Issue 3
Pages 595-661
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s00039-022-00602-x

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