Hyperbolic Surfaces with Arbitrarily Small Spectral Gap

Publication date 1 September 2017

Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50)

Abstract: Let

X = G a m m a s e t m i n u s m a t h b b H

be a non-elementary geometrically finite hyperbolic surface and let

d e l t a

denote the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set

L a m b d a (G a m m a)

. We prove that for every

v a r e p s i l o n > 0

the surface

X

admits a finite cover

X^{'}

such that the Selberg zeta function associated to

X^{'}

has a zero

s e q d e l t a

with

| d e l t a - s | < v a r e p s i l o n

. For

d e l t a > f r a c 12

we exploit the combinatorial interpretation of spectral gap in terms of expander graphs. For

d e l t a l e q f r a c 12

the proof is based on the thermodynamic formalism approach for L-functions associated to hyperbolic surfaces and an analogue of the Artin-Takagi formula for these L-functions.

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