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For convex co-compact hyperbolic quotients \({X=\Gamma\backslash\mathbb {H}^{n+1}}\) , we analyze the long-time asymptotic of the solution of the wave equation u(t) with smooth compactly supported initial data f = (f 0, f 1). We show that, if the Hausdorff dimension δ of the limit set is less than n/2, then \({u(t)=C_\delta(f)e^{(\delta-\frac{n}{2})t}/\Gamma(\delta-n/2+1)+e^{(\delta-\frac{n}{2})t}R(t),}\) where \({C_{\delta}(f)\in C^\infty(X)}\) and \({||R(t)||=\mathcal{O}(t^{-\infty})}\) . We explain, in terms of conformal theory of the conformal infinity of X, the special cases \({\delta\in n/2-\mathbb {N}}\) , where the leading asymptotic term vanishes. In a second part, we show for all \({\epsilon > 0}\) the existence of an infinite number of resonances (and thus zeros of Selberg zeta function) in the strip \({\{-n\delta-\epsilon < \rm Re(\lambda) < \delta\}}\) . As a byproduct we obtain a lower bound on the remainder R(t) for generic initial data f.
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Guillarmou, C., Naud, F. Wave Decay on Convex Co-Compact Hyperbolic Manifolds. Commun. Math. Phys. 287, 489–511 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-008-0706-z
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