Improved fractal Weyl bounds for hyperbolic manifolds

Abstract

We give a new fractal Weyl upper bound for resonances of convex co-compact hyperbolic manifolds in terms of the dimension $n$ of the manifold and the dimension $δ$ of its limit set. More precisely, we show that as $R\to\infty$, the number of resonances in the box $[R,R+1]+i[-β,0]$ is $O(R^{m(β,δ)+})$, where the exponent $m(β,δ)=\min(2δ+2β+1-n,δ)$ changes its behavior at $β=(n-1-δ)/2$. In the case $δ<(n-1)/2$, we also give an improved resolvent upper bound in the standard resonance free strip $\{\mathrm{Im}\ λ > δ-(n-1)/2\}$. Both results use the fractal uncertainty principle point of view recently introduced in [arXiv:1504.06589]. The appendix presents numerical evidence for the Weyl upper bound.

42 pages, 10 figures; with an appendix by David Borthwick and Tobias Weich. Revised following suggestions of the referee. To appear in JEMS