Abstract. The purpose of this paper is to give a short microlocal proof of the meromorphic continuation of the Ruelle zeta function for C ∞ Anosov flows. More general results have been recently proved by Giulietti-Liverani-Pollicott [GiLiPo] but our approach is different and is based on the study of the generator of the flow as a semiclassical differential operator.The purpose of this article is to provide a short microlocal proof of the meromorphic continuation of the Ruelle zeta function for C ∞ Anosov flows on compact manifolds:Theorem. Suppose X is a compact manifold and ϕ t : X → X is a C ∞ Anosov flow with orientable stable and unstable bundles. Let {γ } denote the set of primitive orbits of ϕ t , with T γ their periods. Then the Ruelle zeta function,which converges for Im λ 1 has a meromorphic continuation to C.In fact the proof applies to any Anosov flow for which linearized Poincaré maps P γ for closed orbits γ satisfy | det(I − P γ )| = (−1) q det(I − P γ ), with q independent of γ. The meromorphic continuation of ζ R was conjectured by Smale [Sm] and in greater generality it was proved very recently by Giulietti, Liverani, and Pollicott [GiLiPo]. Another recent perspective on dynamical zeta functions in the contact case has been provided by Faure and Tsujii [FaTs1,FaTs2]. Our motivation and proof are however different from those of [GiLiPo]: we were investigating trace formulae for PollicottRuelle resonances [Po,Ru86] which give some lower bounds on their counting function. Sharp upper bounds were given recently in [DDZ, FaSj].
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