Branching of Automorphic Fundamental Solutions

Abstract

Automorphic fundamental solutions and, more generally, solutions of automorphic differential equations, play a key role in the Diaconu-Garrett-Goldfeld prescription for spectral identities involving moments of L-functions as well as other applications, including an explicit formula relating the number of lattice points in a symmetric space to the automorphic spectrum. In this paper we discuss two cases in which the automorphic fundamental solution exhibits branching: pathwise meromorphic continuations may differ by a term involving an Eisenstein series.

10 pages, 1 figure. Augmented introduction, other minor changes to improve clarity. This is the version accepted by Michigan J. Math