Strict transfer operator approaches for non-compact hyperbolic orbisurfaces

Abstract

By building on former results and the cusp expansion algorithm, we construct strict transfer operator approaches for geometrically finite developable hyperbolic orbisurfaces of infinite area without cusps. Together with the cusp expansion algorithm for orbisurfaces with cusps, this provides strict transfer operator approaches for all hyperbolic orbifolds fulfilling mild assumptions. For every such orbisurface we obtain explicit transfer operator families for which, by virtue of a result of Fedosova and Pohl, the Fredholm determinant function is seen to be identical to the associated Selberg zeta function.