scholarly journals Counting closed geodesics in a compact rank-one locally CAT(0) space

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
RUSSELL RICKS
Keyword(s):  
Geodesic Flow ◽  
Universal Cover ◽  
Closed Geodesics ◽  
Metric Graph ◽  
Rank One ◽  
Unit Speed ◽  
Geodesically Complete

Abstract Let X be a compact, geodesically complete, locally CAT(0) space such that the universal cover admits a rank-one axis. Assume X is not homothetic to a metric graph with integer edge lengths. Let $P_t$ be the number of parallel classes of oriented closed geodesics of length at most t; then $\lim \nolimits _{t \to \infty } P_t / ({e^{ht}}/{ht}) = 1$ , where h is the entropy of the geodesic flow on the space $GX$ of parametrized unit-speed geodesics in X.

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.

scholarly journals Cocycle rigidity of partially hyperbolic abelian actions with almost rank-one factors

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (7) ◽  
pp. 2006-2016
Author(s):  
KURT VINHAGE
Keyword(s):  
Recent Progress ◽  
Universal Cover ◽  
Cycle Structure ◽  
Rank One ◽  
Partially Hyperbolic ◽  
Cocycle Rigidity

We extend the recent progress on the cocycle rigidity of partially hyperbolic homogeneous abelian actions to the setting with rank-one factors in the universal cover. The method of proof relies on the periodic cycle functional and analysis of the cycle structure, but uses a new argument to give vanishing.

scholarly journals Slow volume growth for Reeb flows on spherizations and contact Bott–Samelson theorems

2015 ◽  
Vol 07 (03) ◽  
pp. 407-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Urs Frauenfelder ◽  
Clémence Labrousse ◽  
Felix Schlenk
Keyword(s):  
Lower Bound ◽  
Polynomial Growth ◽  
Polynomial Complexity ◽  
Cohomology Ring ◽  
Volume Growth ◽  
Universal Cover ◽  
Geodesic Flows ◽  
Dynamical Complexity ◽  
Reeb Flows ◽  
Rank One

We give a uniform lower bound for the polynomial complexity of Reeb flows on the spherization (S*M, ξ) over a closed manifold. Our measure for the dynamical complexity of Reeb flows is slow volume growth, a polynomial version of topological entropy, and our lower bound is in terms of the polynomial growth of the homology of the based loop space of M. As an application, we extend the Bott–Samelson theorem from geodesic flows to Reeb flows: If (S*M, ξ) admits a periodic Reeb flow, or, more generally, if there exists a positive Legendrian loop of a fiber [Formula: see text], then M is a circle or the fundamental group of M is finite and the integral cohomology ring of the universal cover of M agrees with that of a compact rank one symmetric space.

scholarly journals On the geodesic flow on CAT(0) spaces

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (12) ◽  
pp. 3310-3338
Author(s):  
CHARALAMPOS CHARITOS ◽  
IOANNIS PAPADOPERAKIS ◽  
GEORGIOS TSAPOGAS
Keyword(s):  
Geodesic Flow ◽  
Rank One ◽  
Topologically Mixing

Under certain assumptions on CAT(0) spaces, we show that the geodesic flow is topologically mixing. In particular, the Bowen–Margulis’ measure finiteness assumption used by Ricks [Flat strips, Bowen–Margulis measures, and mixing of the geodesic flow for rank one CAT(0) spaces. Ergod. Th. & Dynam. Sys. 37 (2017), 939–970] is removed. We also construct examples of CAT(0) spaces that do not admit finite Bowen–Margulis measure.

On the complete integrability of the geodesic flow of manifolds all of whose geodesics are closed

1997 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 1359-1370
Author(s):  
CARLOS E. DURÁN
Keyword(s):  
Finite Group ◽  
Symmetric Space ◽  
Geodesic Flow ◽  
Complete Integrability ◽  
Integrals Of Motion ◽  
Completely Integrable ◽  
Rank One ◽  
A Finite Group

We show that the geodesic flow of a metric all of whose geodesics are closed is completely integrable, with tame integrals of motion. Applications to classical examples are given; in particular, it is shown that the geodesic flow of any quotient $M/\Gamma$ of a compact, rank one symmetric space $M$ by a finite group acting freely by isometries is completely integrable by tame integrals.

scholarly journals Smoothing of Limit Linear Series on Curves and Metrized Complexes of Pseudocompact Type

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (03) ◽  
pp. 629-658 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang He
Keyword(s):  
Linear Series ◽  
Metric Graph ◽  
Rank One ◽  
Limit Linear Series

AbstractWe investigate the connection between Osserman limit series (on curves of pseudocompact type) and Amini–Baker limit linear series (on metrized complexes with corresponding underlying curve) via a notion of pre-limit linear series on curves of the same type. Then, applying the smoothing theorems of Osserman limit linear series, we deduce that, fixing certain metrized complexes, or for certain types of Amini–Baker limit linear series, the smoothability is equivalent to a certain “weak glueing condition”. Also for arbitrary metrized complexes of pseudocompact type the weak glueing condition (when it applies) is necessary for smoothability. As an application we confirm the lifting property of specific divisors on the metric graph associated with a certain regular smoothing family, and give a new proof of a result of Cartright, Jensen, and Payne for vertex-avoiding divisors, and generalize it for divisors of rank one in the sense that, for the metric graph, there could be at most three edges (instead of two) between any pair of adjacent vertices.

On a conjecture of Green

1997 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 247-252
Author(s):  
CHENGBO YUE
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Symmetric Space ◽  
Sectional Curvature ◽  
Geodesic Flow ◽  
Rigidity Theorem ◽  
Locally Symmetric Space ◽  
Closed Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Rank One ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Negative Sectional Curvature

Green [5] conjectured that if $M$ is a closed Riemannian manifold of negative sectional curvature such that the mean curvatures of the horospheres through each point depend only on the point, then $V$ is a locally symmetric space of rank one. He proved this in dimension two. In this paper we prove that under Green's assumption, $M$ must be asymptotically harmonic and that the geodesic flow on $M$ is $C^{\infty}$ conjugate to that of a locally symmetric space of rank one. Combining this with the recent rigidity theorem of Besson–Courtois–Gallot [1], it follows that Green's conjecture is true for all dimensions.

scholarly journals Higher order Dehn functions for horospheres in products of Hadamard spaces

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
Gabriele Link
Keyword(s):  
Symmetric Spaces ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Regular Boundary ◽  
Dehn Functions ◽  
Modular Groups ◽  
Hilbert Modular ◽  
Rank One ◽  
Riemannian Symmetric Spaces ◽  
Geodesically Complete ◽  
Nagata Dimension

Abstract Let X be a product of r locally compact and geodesically complete Hadamard spaces. We prove that the horospheres in X centered at regular boundary points of X are Lipschitz-(r − 2)-connected. If X has finite Assouad–Nagata dimension, then using the filling construction by R. Young in [10] this gives sharp bounds on higher order Dehn functions for such horospheres. Moreover, if Γ ⊂ Is(X) is a lattice acting cocompactly on X minus a union of disjoint horoballs, then we get a sharp bound on higher order Dehn functions for Γ. We deduce that apart from the Hilbert modular groups already considered by R. Young, every irreducible ℚ-rank one lattice acting on a product of r Riemannian symmetric spaces of the noncompact type is undistorted up to dimension r−1 and has k-th order Dehn function asymptotic to V(k+1)/k for all k ≤ r − 2.

Expansive geodesic flows in manifolds with no conjugate points

1997 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 211-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
RAFAEL O. RUGGIERO
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Tangent Bundle ◽  
Geodesic Flow ◽  
Compact Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Product Structure ◽  
Conjugate Points ◽  
Geodesic Flows ◽  
Closed Geodesics ◽  
Local Product ◽  
Unit Tangent Bundle

Let $M$ be a compact Riemannian manifold with no conjugate points such that its geodesic flow is expansive. We show that there exists a local product structure in the unit tangent bundle of the manifold which is invariant under the geodesic flow. In particular, we have that the set of closed geodesics is dense and that the flow is topologically transitive.

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