## Bulletin (New Series) of the American Mathematical Society

### The thermodynamic formalism approach to Selberg's zeta function for ${\text{PSL}}\left( {2,\mathbf{Z}} \right)$

Dieter H. Mayer

#### Article information

Source
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.), Volume 25, Number 1 (1991), 55-60.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 5 July 2007

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bams/1183657045

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR1080004

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
0729.58041

#### Citation

Mayer, Dieter H. The thermodynamic formalism approach to Selberg's zeta function for ${\text{PSL}}\left( {2,\mathbf{Z}} \right)$. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 25 (1991), no. 1, 55--60. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bams/1183657045

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