Abelian covers of hyperbolic surfaces: equidistribution of spectra and infinite mixing asymptotics for horocycle flows
Résumé
We consider Abelian covers of compact hyperbolic surfaces. We establish an asymptotic expansion of the correlations for the horocycle flow on $\mathbb{Z}^d$-covers, thus proving a strong form of Krickeberg mixing. This is the first result on infinite mixing for parabolic flows. We also prove that the spectral measures around $0$ of the Casimir operators on any increasing sequence of finite Abelian covers converge weakly to an absolutely continuous measure.