Spectral Multiplicity for Maaß Newforms of Non-Squarefree Level

Abstract

We show that if a positive integer $q$ has $s(q)$ odd prime divisors $p$ for which $p^2$ divides $q$, then a positive proportion of the Laplacian eigenvalues of Maass newforms of weight $0$, level $q$, and principal character occur with multiplicity at least $2^{s(q)}$. Consequently, the new part of the cuspidal spectrum of the Laplacian on ${\Gamma }_0(q)\backslash \mathbb{H}$ cannot be simple for any odd non-squarefree integer $q$. This generalises work of Stromberg, who proved this for $q=9$ by different methods.

29 pages. To appear in International Mathematics Research Notices

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