Ruelle Zeta Functions of Hyperbolic Manifolds and Reidemeister Torsion

This paper is concerned with the behavior of twisted Ruelle zeta functions of compact hyperbolic manifolds at the origin. Fried proved that for an orthogonal acyclic representation of the fundamental group of a compact hyperbolic manifold, the twisted Ruelle zeta function is holomorphic at $$s=0$$ s = 0 and its value at $$s=0$$ s = 0 equals the Reidemeister torsion. He also established a more general result for orthogonal representations, which are not acyclic. The purpose of the present paper is to extend Fried’s result to arbitrary finite dimensional representations of the fundamental group. The Reidemeister torsion is replaced by the complex-valued combinatorial torsion introduced by Cappell and Miller.

Shrinking targets for the geodesic flow on geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>Let <inline-formula><tex-math id="M1">\begin{document}$ \mathscr{M} $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula> be a geometrically finite hyperbolic manifold. We present a very general theorem on the shrinking target problem for the geodesic flow, using its exponential mixing. This includes a strengthening of Sullivan's logarithm law for the excursion rate of the geodesic flow. More generally, we prove logarithm laws for the first hitting time for shrinking cusp neighborhoods, shrinking tubular neighborhoods of a closed geodesic, and shrinking metric balls, as well as give quantitative estimates for the time a generic geodesic spends in such shrinking targets.</p>

The geometry of k-free hyperbolic 3-manifolds

We investigate the geometry of closed, orientable, hyperbolic 3-manifolds whose fundamental groups are [Formula: see text]-free for a given integer [Formula: see text]. We show that any such manifold [Formula: see text] contains a point [Formula: see text] with the following property: If [Formula: see text] is the set of maximal cyclic subgroups of [Formula: see text] that contain non-trivial elements represented by loops of [Formula: see text], then for every subset [Formula: see text], we have rank [Formula: see text]. This generalizes to all [Formula: see text] results proved in [J. W. Anderson, R. D. Canary, M. Culler and P. B. Shalen, Free Kleinian groups and volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds, J. Differential Geom. 43 (1996) 738–782; M. Culler and P. B. Shalen, 4-free groups and hyperbolic geometry, J. Topol. 5 (2012) 81–136], which have been used to relate the volume of a hyperbolic manifold to its topological properties, and it strictly improves on the result obtained in [R. K. Guzman, Hyperbolic 3-manifolds with [Formula: see text]-free fundamental group, Topology Appl. 173 (2014) 142–156] for [Formula: see text]. The proof avoids the use of results about ranks of joins and intersections in free groups that were used in [M. Culler and P. B. Shalen, 4-free groups and hyperbolic geometry, J. Topol. 5 (2012) 81–136; R. K. Guzman, Hyperbolic 3-manifolds with [Formula: see text]-free fundamental group, Topology Appl. 173 (2014) 142–156].

Volume Comparison in the presence of a Gromov-Hausdorff ε−approximation II

Let (M, g) be any compact, connected, Riemannian manifold of dimension n. We use a transport of measures and the barycentre to construct a map from (M, g) onto a Hyperbolic manifold (ℍn/Λ, g0) (Λ is a torsionless subgroup of Isom(ℍn,g0)), in such a way that its jacobian is sharply bounded from above. We make no assumptions on the topology of (M, g) and on its curvature and geometry, but we only assume the existence of a measurable Gromov-Hausdorff ε-approximation between (ℍn/Λ, g0) and (M, g). When the Hausdorff approximation is continuous with non vanishing degree, this leads to a sharp volume comparison, if $\varepsilon < {1 \over {64\,{n^2}}}\min \left( {in{j_{\left( {{{\Bbb H}^n}/\Lambda ,{g_0}} \right)}},1} \right)$ , then $$\matrix{{Vol\left( {{M^n},g} \right) \ge }\cr {{{\left( {1 + 160n\left( {n + 1} \right)\sqrt {{\varepsilon \over {\min \left( {in{j_{\left( {{{\Bbb H}^n}/\Lambda ,{g_0}} \right)}},1} \right)}}} } \right)}^{{n \over 2}}}\left| {\deg \,h} \right| \cdot Vol\left( {{X^n},{g_0}} \right).} \cr }$$

On the existence of the field line solutions of the Einstein–Maxwell equations

The main result of this paper is the proof that there are local electric and magnetic field configurations expressed in terms of field lines on an arbitrary hyperbolic manifold. This electromagnetic field is described by (dual) solutions of the Maxwell’s equations of the Einstein–Maxwell theory. These solutions have the following important properties: (i) they are general, in the sense that the knot solutions are particular cases of them and (ii) they reduce to the electromagnetic fields in the field line representation in the flat space-time. Also, we discuss briefly the real representation of these electromagnetic configurations and write down the corresponding Einstein equations.