Improved fractal Weyl bounds for hyperbolic manifolds (with an appendix by David Borthwick, Semyon Dyatlov and Tobias Weich) (Q2418882)

Summary: We give a new fractal Weyl upper bound for resonances of convex co-compact hyperbolic manifolds in terms of the dimension \(n\) of the manifold and the dimension \(\delta\) of its limit set. More precisely, we show that as \(R\to\infty\), the number of resonances in the box \([R,R+1]+i[-\beta,0]\) is \(\mathcal{O}(R^{m(\beta,\delta)+})\), where the exponent \(m(\beta,\delta)=\min(2\delta+2\beta+1-n,\delta)\) changes its behavior at \(\beta={n-1/ 2}-{\delta/2}\). In the case \(\delta<{n-1/2}\), we also give an improved resolvent upper bound in the standard resonance free strip \(\{\Im\lambda > \delta-{n-1/2}\}\). Both results use the fractal uncertainty principle point of view recently introduced in our work with \textit{J. Zahl} [Geom. Funct. Anal. 26, No. 4, 1011--1094 (2016; Zbl 1384.58019)]. The appendix presents numerical evidence for the Weyl upper bound.