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On Quantum Chaos and Maass Waveforms of CM-Type

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In this paper, we report on some machine experiments which suggest that waveforms of CM-type are asymptotically Gaussian-distributed.

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    Dennis A. Hejhal & Andreas Strömbergsson

  2. School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55455

    Dennis A. Hejhal

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Hejhal, D.A., Strömbergsson, A. On Quantum Chaos and Maass Waveforms of CM-Type. Foundations of Physics 31, 519–533 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017521729782

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