Meromorphic continuation of dynamical zeta functions via transfer operators

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Abstract: We describe a general method to prove meromorphic continuation of dynamical zeta functions to the entire complex plane under the condition that the corresponding partition functions are given via a dynamical trace formula from a family of transfer operators. Further we give general conditions for the partition functions associated with general spin chains to be of this type and provide various families of examples for which these conditions are satisfied. Keywords: Dynamical zeta function, transfer operator, trace formulae, thermodynamic formalism, spin chain, Fock space, regularized determinants, weighted composition operator.


Let \(\zeta_{\mathrm{R}}(z) = \exp \left( \sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{z^n}{n} Z_n \right)\) be the dynamical zeta function with \(Z_n\) the partition function for a spin-chain, a one-sided one-dimensional subshift with interaction function of finite support or suitably fast decay. A typical example is the dynamical system arising from the Ising model for ferromagnetism [\textit{E. Ising}, Beitrag zur Theorie des Ferromagnetismus, Z. Phys. 31, 253--258 (1925)] a shift on the configuration space \(\{\pm1\}^{\mathbb{N}}\) together with a interaction function of finite range. In the article under review, the authors show that the dynamical zeta function \(\zeta_{\mathrm{R}}\) admits a meromorphic continuation and can be written as Euler product. The main assumption for this result is that the partition function \(Z_n\) satisfies a trace formula of the type \(Z_n = \det \left(1- \Lambda^n \right) \, \text{trace} \, G^n\) for suitable operators \(\Lambda\) and \(G\). The authors construct a suitable transfer operator \(G\) if the underlying spin-chain has an interaction function of finite support or suitably fast decay. The authors include a number of known examples for spin-chains in the physical literature and show how their result can be applied.











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