Sarnak’s density conjecture is an explicit bound on the multiplicities of nontempered representations in a sequence of cocompact congruence arithmetic lattices in a semisimple Lie group, which is motivated by the work of Sarnak and Xue ([58]). The goal of this work is to discuss similar hypotheses, their interrelation and their applications. We mainly focus on two properties – the spectral spherical density hypothesis and the geometric Weak injective radius property. Our results are strongest in the p-adic case, where we show that the two properties are equivalent, and both imply Sarnak’s general density hypothesis. One possible application is that either the spherical density hypothesis or the Weak injective radius property imply Sarnak’s optimal lifting property ([57]). Conjecturally, all those properties should hold in great generality. We hope that this work will motivate their proofs in new cases.

Let f be a non-zero cusp form with real Fourier coefficients a(n) (n ≥ 1) of positive real weight k and a unitary multiplier system v on a subgroup Γ ⊂ SL2(ℝ) that is finitely generated and of Fuchsian type of the first kind. Then, it is known that the sequence (a(n))(n ≥ 1) has infinitely many sign changes. In this short note, we generalise the above result to the case of entire modular integrals of non-positive integral weight k on the group Γ0*(N) (N ∈ ℕ) generated by the Hecke congruence subgroup Γ0(N) and the Fricke involution provided that the associated period functions are polynomials.

We study the Fourier coefficients of generalized modular forms f(τ) of integral weight k on subgroups Γ of finite index in the modular group. We establish two Theorems asserting that f(τ) is constant if k = 0, f(τ) has empty divisor, and the Fourier coefficients have certain rationality properties. (The result is false if the rationality assumptions are dropped.) These results are applied to the case that f(τ) has a cuspidal divisor, k is arbitrary, and Γ = Γ0(N), where we show that f(τ) is modular, indeed an eta-quotient, under natural rationality assumptions on the Fourier coefficients. We also explain how these results apply to the theory of orbifold vertex operator algebras.

we study some automorphic cohomology classes of degree one on the griffiths–schmid varieties attached to some unitary groups in three variables. using partial compactifications of those varieties, constructed by kato and usui, we define for such a cohomology class some analogues of fourier–shimura coefficients, which are cohomology classes on certain elliptic curves. we show that a large space of such automorphic classes can be generated by those with rational ‘coefficients’. more precisely, we consider those cohomology classes that come from picard modular forms, via some penrose-like transform studied in a previous article: we prove that the coefficients of the classes thus obtained can be computed from the coefficients of the picard form by a similar transform defined at the level of the elliptic curve.

Let $G$ be a reductive algebraic group defined over $\mathbb{Q}$, with anisotropic centre. Given a rational action of $G$ on a finite-dimensional vector space $V$, we analyze the truncated integral of the theta series corresponding to a Schwartz-Bruhat function on $V\left( \mathbb{A} \right)$. The Poisson summation formula then yields an identity of distributions on $V\left( \mathbb{A} \right)$. The truncation used is due to Arthur.