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Intuition: Why is the cuspidal spectrum discrete?

Hi, I have a short question concernung the spectral theory of automorphic forms. Why is the main property of the unipotent group $N$, which consist of matrices in the form \begin{pmatrix} 1 & t \\ 0 &1 \end{pmatrix} in $GL(2)$, which provides that the cuspidal spectrum decomposes discretely?

Marc Palm
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