New models for the action of Hecke operators in spaces of Maass wave forms
Utilizing the theory of the Poisson transform, we develop some new concrete models for the Hecke theory in a space of Maass forms with eigenvalue on a congruence subgroup . We introduce the field so that consists entirely of algebraic numbers if .The main result of the paper is the following. For a packet of Hecke eigenvalues occurring in we then have that either every is algebraic over , or else will – for some – occur in the first cohomology of a certain space which is a...