Spectral theory of infinite-area hyperbolic surfaces (Q5890710)

The first edition of this book was published in 2007 [Zbl 1130.58001]. This, the second edition, published in 2016, updates the first edition to include many important results that were proved in the intervening period. In addition, the exposition and organization of the text has been improved. For example, rather than dealing exclusively with exact hyperbolic quotients, the more general context of surfaces with hyperbolic ends has been examined which permits many results to be stated in a stronger fashion. New techniques for numerical computation of resonances have become available in the intervening period between the first and the second edition; an additional chapter has been added to the second edition which describes these methods and they are used to discuss various conjectures which relate to resonance distribution. \medbreak The book is organized into 16 chapters with an appendix at the end. There is an extensive and useful bibliography that has been updated appropriately to add additional more recent references. After an introduction to the subject, Chapter 2 treats basic hyperbolic geometry, Chapter 3 discusses Selberg theory for finite area hyperbolic surfaces, Chapter 4 presents the spectral theory for the hyperbolic plane, Chapter 5 introduces model resolvants for cylinders, and Chapter 6 deals with the resolvent more generally. Chapter 7 is an introduction to spectral and scattering theory that is continued in Chapter 8 where resonances and scattering poles are treated with appropriate growth estimates and resonance bounds appearing in Chapter 9. Chapter 10 turns to the Selberg zeta function, wave trace and Poisson formulas appear in Chapter 11 and resonance asymptotics in Chapter 12. Chapter 13 deals with inverse spectral geometry, Chapter 14 with Peterson-Sullivan theory, and Chapter 15 with a dynamical approach to the zeta function. The final chapter of the book deals with numerical computations.