Prime geodesic theorem in the 3-dimensional hyperbolic space

Journal article, 2019

For Γ a cofinite Kleinian group acting on H3, we study the prime geodesic theorem on M = Γ\H3, which asks about the asymptotic behavior of lengths of primitive closed geodesics (prime geodesics) on M. Let EΓ(X) be the error in the counting of prime geodesics with length at most log X. For the Picard manifold, Γ = PSL(2, Z[i]), we improve the classical bound of Sarnak, EΓ(X) = O(X5/3+e), to EΓ(X) = O(X13/8+e). In the process we obtain a mean subconvexity estimate for the Rankin-Selberg L-function attached to Maass-Hecke cusp forms. We also investigate the second moment of EΓ(X) for a general cofinite group Γ, and we show that it is bounded by O(X16/5+e).