Sup-norm and nodal domains of dihedral Maass forms

Abstract

In this paper, we improve the sup-norm bound and the lower bound of the number of nodal domains for dihedral Maass forms, which are a distinguished sequence of Laplacian eigenfunctions on an arithmetic hyperbolic surface. More specifically, let $\phi$ be a dihedral Maass form with spectral parameter $t_\phi$, then we prove that $\|\phi\|_\infty \ll t_\phi^{3/8+\varepsilon} \|\phi\|_2$, which is an improvement over the bound $t_\phi^{5/12+\varepsilon} \|\phi\|_2$ given by Iwaniec and Sarnak. As a consequence, we get a better lower bound for the number of nodal domains intersecting a fixed geodesic segment under the Lindel\"{o}f Hypothesis. Unconditionally, we prove that the number of nodal domains grows faster than $t_\phi^{1/8-\varepsilon}$ for any $\varepsilon>0$ for almost all dihedral Maass forms.