Topological dynamics of the geodesic flow

2011 ◽  
pp. 79-95
Author(s):  
Françoise Dal’Bo
Keyword(s):  
Geodesic Flow ◽  
Topological Dynamics

scholarly journals Topological dynamics of the Weil–Petersson geodesic flow

2010 ◽  
Vol 223 (4) ◽  
pp. 1225-1235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Pollicott ◽  
Howard Weiss ◽  
Scott A. Wolpert
Keyword(s):  
Geodesic Flow ◽  
Topological Dynamics

Hypoelliptic Laplacian and Orbital Integrals (AM-177)

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Michel Bismut
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Point ◽  
Symmetric Space ◽  
Heat Kernel ◽  
Geodesic Flow ◽  
Casimir Operator ◽  
Index Theory ◽  
Weighted Sum ◽  
Orbital Integrals ◽  
Hypoelliptic Heat Kernel ◽  
Wave Kernel

This book uses the hypoelliptic Laplacian to evaluate semisimple orbital integrals in a formalism that unifies index theory and the trace formula. The hypoelliptic Laplacian is a family of operators that is supposed to interpolate between the ordinary Laplacian and the geodesic flow. It is essentially the weighted sum of a harmonic oscillator along the fiber of the tangent bundle, and of the generator of the geodesic flow. In this book, semisimple orbital integrals associated with the heat kernel of the Casimir operator are shown to be invariant under a suitable hypoelliptic deformation, which is constructed using the Dirac operator of Kostant. Their explicit evaluation is obtained by localization on geodesics in the symmetric space, in a formula closely related to the Atiyah-Bott fixed point formulas. Orbital integrals associated with the wave kernel are also computed. Estimates on the hypoelliptic heat kernel play a key role in the proofs, and are obtained by combining analytic, geometric, and probabilistic techniques. Analytic techniques emphasize the wavelike aspects of the hypoelliptic heat kernel, while geometrical considerations are needed to obtain proper control of the hypoelliptic heat kernel, especially in the localization process near the geodesics. Probabilistic techniques are especially relevant, because underlying the hypoelliptic deformation is a deformation of dynamical systems on the symmetric space, which interpolates between Brownian motion and the geodesic flow. The Malliavin calculus is used at critical stages of the proof.

scholarly journals Topological Dynamics and the Space of Continuous Mappings

2020 ◽  
Vol 1591 ◽  
pp. 012066
Author(s):  
Mohammed Nokhas Murad Kaki ◽  
Reyadh. D. Ali
Keyword(s):  
Topological Dynamics ◽  
Continuous Mappings

scholarly journals Category Theory for Autonomous and Networked Dynamical Systems

Entropy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Charles Delvenne
Keyword(s):  
Dynamical Systems ◽  
Systems Theory ◽  
Ergodic Theory ◽  
Category Theory ◽  
Open Systems ◽  
Topological Dynamics ◽  
Control Problems ◽  
Natural Conditions ◽  
Discussion Paper ◽  
Open Systems Theory

In this discussion paper we argue that category theory may play a useful role in formulating, and perhaps proving, results in ergodic theory, topogical dynamics and open systems theory (control theory). As examples, we show how to characterize Kolmogorov–Sinai, Shannon entropy and topological entropy as the unique functors to the nonnegative reals satisfying some natural conditions. We also provide a purely categorical proof of the existence of the maximal equicontinuous factor in topological dynamics. We then show how to define open systems (that can interact with their environment), interconnect them, and define control problems for them in a unified way.

The algebraic integrability of geodesic flow onSO(4)

1982 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Adler ◽  
P. van Moerbeke
Keyword(s):  
Geodesic Flow ◽  
Algebraic Integrability

scholarly journals Two folk theorems in topological dynamics

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 539-543
Author(s):  
Joseph Auslander
Keyword(s):  
Topological Dynamics ◽  
Folk Theorems

scholarly journals Flat strips, Bowen–Margulis measures, and mixing of the geodesic flow for rank one CAT(0) spaces

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 939-970 ◽  
Author(s):  
RUSSELL RICKS
Keyword(s):  
Geodesic Flow ◽  
Isometric Action ◽  
Structural Result ◽  
Curved Manifolds ◽  
Rank One ◽  
Unit Speed ◽  
Flat Strip ◽  
Geodesically Complete ◽  
Positively Curved ◽  
General Technical

Let$X$be a proper, geodesically complete CAT($0$) space under a proper, non-elementary, isometric action by a group$\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4}$with a rank one element. We construct a generalized Bowen–Margulis measure on the space of unit-speed parametrized geodesics of$X$modulo the$\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4}$-action. Although the construction of Bowen–Margulis measures for rank one non-positively curved manifolds and for CAT($-1$) spaces is well known, the construction for CAT($0$) spaces hinges on establishing a new structural result of independent interest: almost no geodesic, under the Bowen–Margulis measure, bounds a flat strip of any positive width. We also show that almost every point in$\unicode[STIX]{x2202}_{\infty }X$, under the Patterson–Sullivan measure, is isolated in the Tits metric. (For these results we assume the Bowen–Margulis measure is finite, as it is in the cocompact case.) Finally, we precisely characterize mixing when$X$has full limit set: a finite Bowen–Margulis measure is not mixing under the geodesic flow precisely when$X$is a tree with all edge lengths in$c\mathbb{Z}$for some$c>0$. This characterization is new, even in the setting of CAT($-1$) spaces. More general (technical) versions of these results are also stated in the paper.

Fixed Points for Dissipative-Repulsive Systems and Topological Dynamics of Mappings Defined on N-dimensional Cells

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Pireddu ◽  
Fabio Zanolin
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Point ◽  
Fixed Point Theorem ◽  
Fixed Points ◽  
Point Theorem ◽  
Topological Dynamics ◽  
Continuous Mappings ◽  
Expansion Condition ◽  
Dimensional Cell

AbstractWe prove a fixed point theorem for continuous mappings which satisfy a compression-expansion condition on the boundary of a N-dimensional cell of ℝ

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