Twisted Poincare series and zeta functions on finite quotients of buildings

Abstract

In the case where G = SL2(F) for a non-archimedean local field F and Gamma is a discrete torsion-free cocompact subgroup of G, there is a known relationship between the Ihara zeta function for the quotient of the Bruhat-Tits tree of G by the action of Gamma, and an alternating product of determinants of twisted Poincare series for parabolic subgroups of the affine Weyl group of G. We show how this can be generalized to other split simple algebraic groups of rank two over F and formulate a conjecture about how this might be generalized to groups of higher rank.