Ruelle Zeta Functions of Hyperbolic Manifolds and Reidemeister Torsion

This paper is concerned with the behavior of twisted Ruelle zeta functions of compact hyperbolic manifolds at the origin. Fried proved that for an orthogonal acyclic representation of the fundamental group of a compact hyperbolic manifold, the twisted Ruelle zeta function is holomorphic at $$s=0$$ s = 0 and its value at $$s=0$$ s = 0 equals the Reidemeister torsion. He also established a more general result for orthogonal representations, which are not acyclic. The purpose of the present paper is to extend Fried’s result to arbitrary finite dimensional representations of the fundamental group. The Reidemeister torsion is replaced by the complex-valued combinatorial torsion introduced by Cappell and Miller.

Ruelle Zeta Function from Field Theory

We propose a field-theoretic interpretation of Ruelle zeta function and show how it can be seen as the partition function for BF theory when an unusual gauge-fixing condition on contact manifolds is imposed. This suggests an alternative rephrasing of a conjecture due to Fried on the equivalence between Ruelle zeta function and analytic torsion, in terms of homotopies of Lagrangian submanifolds.

Growth and Zeros of the Zeta Function for Hyperbolic Rational Maps

This paper describes new results on the growth and zeros of the Ruelle zeta function for the Julia set of a hyperbolic rational map. It is shown that the zeta function is bounded by exp(CK|s|δ) in strips | Re s| ≤ K, where δ is the dimension of the Julia set. This leads to bounds on the number of zeros in strips (interpreted as the Pollicott–Ruelle resonances of this dynamical system). An upper bound on the number of zeros in polynomial regions {| Re s| ≤ | Im s|α} is given, followed by weaker lower bound estimates in strips {Re s > –C, | Ims| ≤ r}, and logarithmic neighbourhoods {| Re s| ≤ ρlog | Ims|}. Recent numerical work of Strain–Zworski suggests the upper bounds in strips are optimal.

The lap-counting function for linear mod one transformations I: explicit formulas and renormalizability

Linear mod one transformations are the maps of the unit interval given by fβα(x) = βx + α (mod 1), with β > 1 and 0 ≤ α < 1. The lap-counting function is the function where the lap number Ln essentially counts the number of monotonic pieces of the nth iterate . We derive an explicit factorization formula for Lβα(z) which directly shows that Lβα(z) is a function meromorphic in the open unit disk {z: |z| < 1} and analytic in the open disk {z: |z| < 1/β}, with a simple pole at z = 1/β.Comparison with a known formula for the Artin—Mazur—Ruelle zeta function ζβ,α(z) of fβα shows that Lβα(z) and ζβ,α(z) have identical sets of singularities in the disk {z: |z| < 1}. We derive two more factorization formulae for Lβ,α(z) valid for certain parameter ranges of (β, α). When 1 < α + β ≤ 2, there is sometimes a ‘renormalization’ structure of such maps present, which has previously been studied in connection with simplified models for the Lorenz attractor. In the case that fβα is non-trivially renormalizable, we obtain a factorization formula for Lβα(z). For (β, α) in a region contained in 2 < α + β ≤ 3 we obtain a factorization formula which relates Lβα(z) to a ‘rescaled’ lap-counting function from the region 1 < α + β ≤ 2. The various factorizations exhibit certain singularities of Lβα(z) on the circle |z| = 1/β. These singularities are related to topological dynamical properties of fβ,α. In parts II and III we show that these comprise the complete set of such singularities on the circle |z| = 1/β.