Approximation conjecture for analytic torsion along shrinking congruence subgroups

Let GG be the reductive group defining the symmetric space X~\widetilde{X}, let τRep(G(R))\tau\in\operatorname{Rep}(G(\mathbb{R})) satisfy τ≇τθ\tau\not\cong\tau_\theta, and let {Kj}jN\{K_j\}_{j\in\mathbb{N}} be open compact subgroups of G(Af)G(\mathbb{A}_f) such that Kj1K_j\to 1. Write X(Kj)X(K_j) for the associated adelic quotient, and let tX~(2)(τ)t^{(2)}_{\widetilde{X}}(\tau) denote the L2L^2-torsion density of X~\widetilde{X}. Approximation conjecture. One has

limjlogTX(Kj)(τ)vol(X(Kj))=tX~(2)(τ).\lim_{j\to\infty}\frac{\log T_{X(K_j)}(\tau)}{\operatorname{vol}(X(K_j))}=t^{(2)}_{\widetilde{X}}(\tau).

This conjecture predicts that normalized analytic torsion on increasingly deep congruence quotients is governed by the L2L^2-torsion of the universal symmetric space. It generalizes known approximation results in the compact case to broader reductive groups; its status is not resolved in the supplied text.

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Jasmin Matz and Werner Mueller, “Analytic torsion for arithmetic locally symmetric manifolds and approximation of L^2-torsion”, arXiv:2002.04598 (2021).

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