On distribution of poles of Eisenstein series and the length spectrum of hyperbolic manifolds

Abstract

We extend results of Bhagwat and Rajan on a strong multiplicity one property for length spectrum to hyperbolic manifolds with cusps, showing that for two even dimensional hyperbolic manifolds of finite volume, if all but finitely many closed geodesics have the same length, then all closed geodesics have the same length. When the set of exceptional lengths is infinite, but sufficiently sparse, we can show that the two manifolds must have the same volume, and in low dimensions also the same number of cusps. A main ingredient in our proof is a generalization of a result of Selberg on the distribution of poles of Eisenstein series to hyperbolic manifolds.