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We consider a geodesic billiard system consisting of a complete Riemannian manifold and an obstacle submanifold with boundary at which the trajectories of the geodesic flow experience specular reflections. We show that if the geodesic billiard system is hyperbolic on its trapped set and the latter is compact and non-grazing, the techniques for open hyperbolic systems developed by Dyatlov and Guillarmou (Ann Henri Poincaré 17(11):3089–3146, 2016) can be applied to a smooth model for the discontinuous flow defined by the non-grazing billiard trajectories. This allows us to obtain a meromorphic resolvent for the generator of the billiard flow. As an application we prove a meromorphic continuation of weighted zeta functions together with explicit residue formulae. In particular, our results apply to scattering by convex obstacles in the Euclidean plane. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The kinetic Brownian motion on the sphere bundle of a Riemannian manifold M is a stochastic process that models a random perturbation of the geodesic flow. If M is an orientable compact constantly curved surface, we show that in the limit of infinitely large perturbation the L 2 -spectrum of the infinitesimal generator of a time-rescaled version of the process converges to the Laplace spectrum of the base manifold. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We show that all generalized Pollicott-Ruelle resonant states of a topologically transitive C Anosov flow with an arbitrary C potential have full support. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]