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We obtain uniform lower bounds, true for all automorphic L-functions L(s) associated to cuspidal representations of GL(m,A) where A denotes the adeles of the rationals Q, of the integral on the vertical line (Re(s)=1/2) of the absolute value squared of L(s)/s; and also of L(s)/(s-s_0) when s_0 is a zero of the L-function on the critical line. Several variants are also obtained in small degrees m, for the vertical integrals at different abscissas in the critical strip. For the estimates required to prove convergence, we are led to generalise a result of Friedlander-Iwaniec (Can. J. Math. 57,2005). We obtain new results on the abscissa of convergence of the L-series. Finally, a problem is posed about the behaviour of the quadratic integral when s_0 tends to infinity, in particular for the Riemann zeta function., 53 p

We give improved uniform estimates for the rate of convergence to Plancherel measure of Hecke eigenvalues of holomorphic forms of weight 2 and level N. These are applied to determine the sharp cutoff for the non-backtracking random walk on arithmetic Ramanujan graphs and to Serre's problem of bounding the multiplicities of modular forms whose coefficients lie in number fields of degree d., Comment: 17 pages

We show that the commutator equation over $\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{Z})$ satisfies a profinite local to global principle, while it can fail with infinitely many exceptions for $ \mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{Z}[\frac{1}{p}])$. The source of the failure is a reciprocity obstruction to the Hasse Principle for cubic Markoff surfaces., Comment: Minor edits

We prove that the non-backtracking random walk on Ramanujan graphs with large girth exhibits the fastest possible cutoff with a bounded window., Comment: 16 pages, the second version fixes some minor typos

To each of the symmetry groups of the Platonic solids we adjoin a carefully designed involution yielding topological generators of PU(2) which have optimal covering properties as well as efficient navigation. These are a consequence of optimal strong approximation for integral quadratic forms associated with certain special quaternion algebras and their arithmetic groups. The generators give super efficient 1-qubit quantum gates and are natural building blocks for the design of universal quantum gates.

We prove results pertaining to strong approximation for Markoff triples in the case of prime moduli., Comment: This is the first of three papers giving detailed proofs of the results announced in [BGS16]

We study the spatial distribution of point sets on the sphere obtained from the representation of a large integer as a sum of three integer squares. We examine several statistics of these point sets, such as the electrostatic potential, Ripley's function, the variance of the number of points in random spherical caps, and the covering radius. Some of the results are conditional on the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis., Final version. To appear in the special issue of the Bulletin of the Iranian Mathematical Society (BIMS) in honor of Freydoon Shahidi's 70th birthday

This note concerns the topology of the connected components of the zero sets of monochromatic random waves on compact Riemannian manifolds without boundary. In [SW] it is shown that these are distributed according to a universal measure on the space of smooth topological types. Our goal is to determine the support of this measure.

We summarize main results in our paper "The Mobius function and distal flows", and give a direct proof with rate of that the Mobius function is disjoint from Furstenberg's irregular system. This will be published in the Proceedings of the Sixth ICCM, held in Taipei in 2013., 9 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1303.4957

In [90] the first-named author gave a working definition of a family of automorphic L-functions. Since then there have been a number of works [33], [107], [67] [47], [66] and especially [98] by the second and third-named authors which make it possible to give a conjectural answer for the symmetry type of a family and in particular the universality class predicted in [64] for the distribution of the zeros near s=1/2. In this note we carry this out after introducing some basic invariants associated to a family.

We prove that the M��bius function is linearly disjoint from an analytic skew product on the $2$-torus. These flows are distal and can be irregular in the sense that their ergodic averages need not exist for all points. The previous cases for which such disjointness has been proved are all regular. We also establish the linear disjointness of M��bius from various distal homogeneous flows., 42 pages

These notes were prepared for the MSRI hot topics workshop on superstrong approximation (2012). We give a brief overview of the developments in the theory, especially the fundamental expansion theorem. Applications to diophantine problems on orbits of integer matrix groups, the affine sieve, group theory, gonality of curves and Heegaard genus of hyperbolic three manifolds, are given. We also discuss the ubiquity of thin matrix groups in various contexts, and in particular that of monodromy groups.

We establish the main saturation conjecture in [BGS10] connected with executing a Brun sieve in the setting of an orbit of a group of affine linear transformations. This is carried out under the condition that the Zariski closure of the group is Levi-semisimple. It is likely that this condition is also necessary for such saturation to hold.

A celebrated theorem of Selberg states that for congruence subgroups of SL(2,Z) there are no exceptional eigenvalues below 3/16. We prove a generalization of Selberg's theorem for infinite index "congruence" subgroups of SL(2,Z). Consequently we obtain sharp upper bounds in the affine linear sieve, where in contrast to \cite{BGS} we use an archimedean norm to order the elements.

The existence of a strong spectral gap for quotients $\Gamma\bs G$ of noncompact connected semisimple Lie groups is crucial in many applications. For congruence lattices there are uniform and very good bounds for the spectral gap coming from the known bounds towards the Ramanujan-Selberg Conjectures. If $G$ has no compact factors then for general lattices a strong spectral gap can still be established, however, there is no uniformity and no effective bounds are known. This note is concerned with the strong spectral gap for an irreducible co-compact lattice $\Gamma$ in $G=\PSL(2,\bbR)^d$ for $d\geq 2$ which is the simplest and most basic case where the congruence subgroup property is not known. The method used here gives effective bounds for the spectral gap in this setting., Comment: 35 pages. Final version (to appear in JEMS)

We determine the variance for the fluctuations of the arithmetic measures obtained by collecting all closed geodesics on the modular surface with the same discriminant and ordering them by the latter. This arithmetic variance differs by subtle factors from the variance that one gets when considering individual closed geodesics when ordered by their length. The arithmetic variance is the same one that appears in the fluctuations of measures associated with quantum states on the modular surface., Comment: Added a brief comment concerning Duke's theorem on the unit tangent bundle

We study the distribution of normalized spacings between the fractional parts of an^2, n=1,2,.... We conjecture that if a is "badly approximable" by rationals, then the sequence of fractional parts has Poisson spacings, and give a number of results towards this conjecture. We also present an example of a Diophantine number a for which the higher correlation functions of the sequence blow up., Substantial revisions in the exposition. Accepted for publication in Inventiones mathematicae