Spectral gap and transience for Ruelle operators on countable Markov shifts (Q533641)

The authors develop the spectral gap and transience for Ruelle operators on countable Markov shifts. They provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the Ruelle operators on a topologically mixing countable Markov shift on some Banach space. The authors show that the set of potentials satisfying this condition is open and dense for various topologies. Later, they analyze the complement of this set and show that under the three known obstructions to spectral gap, transience is open and dense, and they provide several results.