Upper and lower bounds on resonances for manifolds hyperbolic near infinity

Abstract

For a conformally compact manifold that is hyperbolic near infinity and of dimension $n+1$, we complete the proof of the optimal $O(r^{n+1})$ upper bound on the resonance counting function, correcting a mistake in the existing literature. In the case of a compactly supported perturbation of a hyperbolic manifold, we establish a Poisson formula expressing the regularized wave trace as a sum over scattering resonances. This leads to an $r^{n+1}$ lower bound on the counting function for scattering poles.

29 pages, minor corrections, added one figure