$L^p$-Norm Bounds for Automorphic Forms via Spectral Reciprocity

Abstract

Let $g$ be a Hecke-Maass cusp form on the modular surface ${\mathrm{SL}}_2(\mathbb{Z})\backslash \mathbb{H}$, namely an $L^2$-normalised nonconstant Laplacian eigenfunction on ${\mathrm{SL}}_2(\mathbb{Z})\backslash \mathbb{H}$ that is additionally a joint eigenfunction of every Hecke operator. We prove the $L^4$-norm bound $\Vert g{\Vert }_4{\ll }_{\epsilon }{\lambda }_g^{3/304+\epsilon }$, where ${\lambda }_g$ denotes the Laplacian eigenvalue of $g$, which improves upon Sogge's $L^4$-norm bound $\Vert g{\Vert }_4\ll {\lambda }_g^{1/16}$ for Laplacian eigenfunctions on a compact Riemann surface by more than a six-fold power-saving. Via interpolation, this yields $L^p$-norm bounds for Hecke-Maass cusp forms that are power-saving improvements on Sogge's bounds for all $p>2$. Our paper marks the first improvement of Sogge's result on the modular surface. Furthermore, these methods yield for compact arithmetic surfaces the best $L^4$-norm bound to date. Via the Watson-Ichino triple product formula, bounds for the $L^4$-norm of $g$ are reduced to bounds for certain mixed moments of $L$-functions. We bound these using two forms of spectral reciprocity. The first is a form of ${\mathrm{GL}}_3\times {\mathrm{GL}}_2\leftrightsquigarrow {\mathrm{GL}}_4\times {\mathrm{GL}}_1$ spectral reciprocity, which relates a ${\mathrm{GL}}_2$ moment of ${\mathrm{GL}}_3\times {\mathrm{GL}}_2$ Rankin-Selberg $L$-functions to a ${\mathrm{GL}}_1$ moment of ${\mathrm{GL}}_4\times {\mathrm{GL}}_1$ Rankin-Selberg $L$-functions; this can be seen as a cuspidal analogue of Motohashi's formula relating the fourth moment of the Riemann zeta function to the third moment of central values of Hecke $L$-functions. The second is a form of ${\mathrm{GL}}_4\times {\mathrm{GL}}_2\leftrightsquigarrow {\mathrm{GL}}_4\times {\mathrm{GL}}_2$ spectral reciprocity, which is a cuspidal analogue of a formula of Kuznetsov for the fourth moment of central values of Hecke $L$-functions.

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