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Ruelle zeta function at zero for surfaces

Dynamical Systems 2017-04-17 v3 Analysis of PDEs Spectral Theory

Abstract

We show that the Ruelle zeta function for a negatively curved oriented surface vanishes at zero to the order given by the absolute value of the Euler characteristic. This result was previously known only in constant curvature.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1606.04560,
  title  = {Ruelle zeta function at zero for surfaces},
  author = {Semyon Dyatlov and Maciej Zworski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.04560},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

17 pages. Added Remark 2 on page 1 and revised following the referee's suggestions. To appear in Inventiones Mathematicae

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