Study of the Laplacian on the Hyperbolic plane

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What's a good reference for the simplest case? I'm interested in the spectral theory of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on the upper half plane (domain, self-adjoint extension, etc.). I only need this for the 2D case, not the quotient space with a group (or other more elaborate cases).

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Here are a few references for the study of the hyperbolic Laplacian. I'm not sure that any of them are exactly what you're looking for, but they should paint the picture well enough.

  • Audrey Terras, Harmonic Analysis on Symmetric Spaces and Applications, vol. I and II

  • Peter Buser, Geometry and Spectra of Compact Riemann Surfaces

  • Isaac Chavel, Eigenvalues in Riemannian Geometry


Edited much later: Another very good reference that I've recently come across is

  • Daniel Bump, Automorphic Forms and Representations

  • Gelfand, Graev, and Piatetsky-Shapiro, Representation Theory and Automorphic Functions, may also be of interest to you.