The sup norm problem concerns the size of L2-normalized eigenfunctions of manifolds. In many situations, one expects to be able to improve upon the general bound following from local considerations. The pioneering result in that direction is due to Iwaniec and Sarnak, who in 1995 established an improvement upon the local bound for Hecke-Maass forms of large eigenvalue on the modular surface. Their method has since been extended and applied by many authors, notably to the ‘level aspect’ variant of the problem, where one varies the underlying manifold rather than the eigenvalue. Recently, Raphael Steiner introduced a new method for attacking the sup norm problem. I will describe joint work with Raphael Steiner and Ilya Khayutin in which we apply that method to improve upon the best known bounds in the level aspect.
This video is part of the Number Theory Web Seminar series.
