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We investigate how bounds of resonance counting functions for Schottky surfaces behave under transitions to covering surfaces of finite degree. We consider the classical resonance counting function asking for the number of resonances in large (and growing) disks centered at the origin of $mathbb{C}$, as well as the (fractal) resonance counting function asking for the number of resonances in boxes near the axis of the critical exponent. For the former counting function we provide a transfer-operator-based proof that bounding constants can be chosen such that the transformation behavior under transition to covers is as for the Weyl law in the case of surfaces of finite area. For the latter counting function we deduce a bound in terms of the covering degree and the minimal length of a periodic geodesic on the covering surface. This yields an improved fractal Weyl upper bound. In the setting of Schottky surfaces, these estimates refine previous results due to Guillop{e}--Zworski and Guillop{e}--Lin--Zworski. When applied to principal congruence covers, these results yield new estimates for the resonance counting functions in the level aspect, which have recently been investigated by Jakobson--Naud. The techniques used in this article are based on the thermodynamic formalism for $L$-functions (twisted Selberg zeta functions), and twisted transfer operators.
In this paper we describe a simple method that allows for a fast direct computation of the scattering matrix for a surface with hyperbolic cusps from the Neumann-to-Dirichlet map on the compact manifold with boundary obtained by removing the cusps. We illustrate that even if the Neumann-to-Dirichlet map is obtained by a Finite Element Method (FEM) one can achieve good accuracy for the scattering matrix. We give various interesting examples of how this can be used to investigate the behaviour of resonances under conformal perturbations or when moving in Teichm{u}ller space. For example, based on numerical experiments we rediscover the four arithmetic surfaces of genus one with one cusp. This demonstrates that it is possible to identify arithmetic objects using FEM.
We study triple covers of K3 surfaces, following Mirandas theory of triple covers. We relate the geometry of the covering surfaces with the properties of both the branch locus and the Tschirnhausen vector bundle. In particular, we classify Galois triple covers computing numerical invariants of the covering surface and of its minimal model. We provide examples of non Galois triple covers, both in the case in which the Tschirnhausen bundle splits into the sum of two line bundles and in the case in which it is an indecomposable rank 2 vector bundle. We provide a criterion to construct rank 2 vector bundles on a K3 surface $S$ which determine a non-Galois triple cover of $S$. The examples presented are in any admissible Kodaira dimension and in particular we provide the constructions of irregular covers of K3 surfaces and of surfaces with geometrical genus equal to 2 whose transcendental Hodge structure splits in the sum of two Hodge structures of K3 type.
For certain spectral parameters we find explicit eigenfunctions of transfer operators for Schottky surfaces. Comparing the dimension of the eigenspace for the spectral parameter zero with the multiplicity of topological zeros of the Selberg zeta function, we deduce that zero is a resonance of every Schottky surface.
Let $Lambdasubset mathbb{R}^d$ be a domain consisting of several cylinders attached to a bounded center. One says that $Lambda$ admits a threshold resonance if there exists a non-trivial bounded function $u$ solving $-Delta u= u u$ in $Lambda$ and vanishing at the boundary, where $ u$ is the bottom of the essential spectrum of the Dirichlet Laplacian in $Lambda$. We derive a sufficient condition for the absence of threshold resonances in terms of the Laplacian eigenvalues on the center. The proof is elementary and is based on the min-max principle. Some two- and three-dimensional examples and applications to the study of Laplacians on thin networks are discussed.
Using a unified approach employing a homogeneous Lippmann-Schwinger-type equation satisfied by resonance functions and basic facts on Riesz potentials, we discuss the absence of threshold resonances for Dirac and Schrodinger operators with sufficiently short-range interactions in general space dimensions. More specifically, assuming a sufficient power law decay of potentials, we derive the absence of zero-energy resonances for massless Dirac operators in space dimensions $n geq 3$, the absence of resonances at $pm m$ for massive Dirac operators (with mass $m > 0$) in dimensions $n geq 5$, and recall the well-known case of absence of zero-energy resonances for Schrodinger operators in dimension $n geq 5$.