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On the distribution of periods of holomorphic cusp forms and zeroes of period polynomials. (English) Zbl 1477.11094

Summary: In this paper, we determine the limiting distribution of the image of the Eichler-Shimura map or equivalently the limiting joint distribution of the coefficients of the period polynomials associated to a fixed cusp form. The limiting distribution is shown to be the distribution of a certain transformation of two independent random variables both of which are equidistributed on the circle \(\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z} \), where the transformation is connected to the additive twist of the cuspidal \(L\)-function. Furthermore, we determine the asymptotic behavior of the zeroes of the period polynomials of a fixed cusp form. We use the method of moments and the main ingredients in the proofs are additive twists of \(L\)-functions and bounds for both individual and sums of Kloosterman sums.

MSC:

11F67 Special values of automorphic \(L\)-series, periods of automorphic forms, cohomology, modular symbols
30C15 Zeros of polynomials, rational functions, and other analytic functions of one complex variable (e.g., zeros of functions with bounded Dirichlet integral)