Ruelle-Pollicott resonances for real analytic hyperbolic map

Abstract

We study two simple real analytic uniformly hyperbolic dynamical systems: expanding maps on the circle S1 and hyperbolic maps on the torus T2. We show that the Ruelle-Pollicott resonances which describe time correlation functions of the chaotic dynamics can be obtained as the eigenvalues of a trace class operator in Hilbert space L2(S1) or L2(T2) respectively. The trace class operator is obtained by conjugation of the Ruelle transfer operator in a similar way quantum resonances are obtained in open quantum systems. We comment this analogy.