DYNAMICS AND ZETA FUNCTIONS ON CONFORMALLY COMPACT MANIFOLDS

In this note, we study the dynamics and associated Zeta functions of conformally compact manifolds with variable negative sectional curvatures. We begin with a discussion of a larger class of manifolds known as convex compact race manifolds with variable negative curvature. Applying results from dynamics on these spaces, we obtain optimal meromorphic extensions of weighted dynamical Zeta functions and asymptotic counting estimates for the number of weighted closed geodesics. A meromorphic extension of the standard dynamical Zeta function and the mime orbit theorem follow as corollaries. Finally, we investigate interactions between the dynamics and spectral theory of these spaces.