Geodesic restrictions for the Casimir operator

We consider the hyperbolic Casimir operator C defined on the tangent sphere bundle SY of a compact hyperbolic Riemann surface Y . We prove a non-trivial bound on the L2-norm of the restriction of eigenfunctions of C to certain natural hypersurfaces in SY. The result that we obtain goes beyond known (sharp) local bounds of L. Hörmander. © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved