Special values of the spectral zeta functions for locally symmetric Riemannian manifolds (Q1775421)

Let \(\Delta\geq 0\) be the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a locally symmetric space \(Y=\Gamma\backslash G/K\) of finite volume. Let \(D\) be the restriction of \(\Delta\) to the orthogonal complement \(\text{ ker}(\Delta)^\perp\) of its kernel and define the \textit{spectral zeta function } as \[ \zeta_\Delta(s)\;=\;\text{ tr}(D^{-s}) \] for \(\text{ Re}(s)\) large. This zeta function extends to a meromorphic function on the complex plane. In the present paper, the special values \(\zeta_\Delta(n)\) for natural numbers \(n > (\dim Y)/2\) are expressed in terms of the coefficients of the Laurent expansion of the corresponding Selberg zeta function. As an application, in special cases numerical estimates of the first eigenvalue of \(\Delta\) are given.