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We continue the study of random matrix universality in two-dimensional conformal field theories. This is facilitated by expanding the spectral form factor in a basis of modular invariant eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on the fundamental domain. The focus of this paper is on the discrete part of the spectrum, which consists of the Maass cusp forms. Both their eigenvalues and Fourier coefficients are sporadic discrete numbers with interesting statistical properties and relations to analytic number theory; this is referred to as ‘arithmetic chaos’. We show that the near-extremal spectral form factor at late times is only sensitive to a statistical average over these erratic features. Nevertheless, complete information about their statistical distributions is encoded in the spectral form factor if all its spin sectors exhibit universal random matrix eigenvalue repulsion (a ‘linear ramp’). We ‘bootstrap’ the spectral correlations between the cusp form basis functions that correspond to a universal linear ramp and show that they are unique up to theory-dependent subleading corrections. The statistical treatment of cusp forms provides a natural avenue to fix the subleading corrections in a minimal way, which we observe leads to the same correlations as those described by the [torus]×[interval] wormhole amplitude in AdS3 gravity.
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We thank Scott Collier and especially Eric Perlmutter for enlightening discussions and comments. We are also grateful to Holger Then for sharing extensive numerical data on Maass cusp forms with us. F.H. is supported by the UKRI Frontier Research Guarantee Grant [EP/X030334/1]. F.H. is grateful for the hospitality of Perimeter Institute, where part of this work was finalized. M.R. and W.R. are supported by a Discovery Grant from NSERC.
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Haehl, F.M., Reeves, W. & Rozali, M. Symmetries and spectral statistics in chaotic conformal field theories. Part II. Maass cusp forms and arithmetic chaos. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 161 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2023)161
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