Dynamical zeta functions and resonance chains for infinite-area hyperbolic surfaces with large funnel widths

Abstract: We quantitatively relate the resonance sets of topologically finite infinite-area hyperbolic surfaces with no cusps to the resonance sets of certain metric graphs via the spine graph construction. In particular, we prove the existence of approximate resonance chains in resonance sets of these surfaces in the long-boundary-length regime. Our results are similar in spirit to those obtained in recent independent work by Li-Matheus-Pan-Tao, although our perspective and hypotheses are somewhat different. Our results also generalize older results obtained for three-funneled spheres by Weich. We primarily make use of transfer operators for holomorphic iterated function schemes, along with certain geometric bounds.