Analytic and Probabilistic Approaches to Dynamics in Negative Curvature, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014 Springer INdAM Series, Vol. 9

The work consists of two introductory courses, developing different points of view on the study of the asymptotic behaviour of the geodesic flow, namely: the probabilistic approach via martingales and mixing (by Stéphane Le Borgne); the semi-classical approach, by operator theory and resonances (by Frédéric Faure and Masato Tsujii). The contributions aim to give a self-contained introduction to the ideas behind the three different approaches to the investigation of hyperbolic dynamics. The first contribution focus on the convergence towards a Gaussian law of suitably normalized ergodic sums (Central Limit Theorem). The second one deals with Transfer Operators and the structure of their spectrum (Ruelle-Pollicott resonances), explaining the relation with the asymptotics of time correlation function and the periodic orbits of the dynamics.

1 S. Le Borgne: Martingales in Hyperbolic Geometry.- 2 F. Faure, M. Tsujii: Semi classical Approach for the Ruelle-Pollicott Spectrum of Hyperbolic Dynamics.

Quick and mostly self-contained introduction to problems and methods Exposition stays as elementary as possible with key-examples Interesting to mathematicians working on geometry, dynamics, probability, operators theory Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras