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Construction of Poincaré-type series by generating kernels

Let $Γ\subset \textrm{PSL}_2({\mathbb R})$ be a Fuchsian group of the first kind having a fundamental domain with a finite hyperbolic area, and let $\widetildeΓ$ be its cover in $\textrm{SL}_2({\mathbb R})$. Consider the space of twice continuously differentiable, square-integrable functions on the hyperbolic upper half-plane, which transform in a suitable way with respect to a multiplier system of weight $k\in{\mathbb R}$ under the action of $\widetildeΓ$. The space of such functions admits the action of the hyperbolic Laplacian $Δ_k$ of weight $k$. Following an approach of Jorgenson, von Pippich and Smajlović (where $k=0$), we use the spectral expansion associated to $Δ_k$ to construct a wave distribution and then identify the conditions on its test functions under which it represents automorphic kernels and further gives rise to Poincaré-type series. An advantage of this method is that the resulting series may be naturally meromorphically continued to the whole complex plane. Additionally, we derive sup-norm bounds for the eigenfunctions in the discrete spectrum of $Δ_k$.