Embedded Surfaces with Ergodic Geodesic Flows

1997 ◽  
Vol 07 (07) ◽  
pp. 1509-1527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Burns ◽  
Victor J. Donnay
Keyword(s):  
Geodesic Flow ◽  
Geodesic Flows ◽  
Smooth Surfaces ◽  
Arbitrary Genus ◽  
Embedded Surfaces

Following ideas of Osserman, Ballmann and Katok, we construct smooth surfaces with ergodic, and indeed Bernoulli, geodesic flow that are isometrically embedded in R3. These surfaces can have arbitrary genus and can be made analytic.

Expansive geodesic flows on surfaces

1993 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Paternain
Keyword(s):  
Geodesic Flow ◽  
Compact Surface ◽  
Conjugate Points ◽  
Riemannian Surface ◽  
Geodesic Flows ◽  
Flows On Surfaces

AbstractWe prove the following result: if M is a compact Riemannian surface whose geodesic flow is expansive, then M has no conjugate points. This result and the techniques of E. Ghys imply that all expansive geodesic flows of a compact surface are topologically equivalent.

scholarly journals A New Proof of the Existence of Embedded Surfaces with Anosov Geodesic Flow

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 685-694
Author(s):  
Victor Donnay ◽  
Daniel Visscher
Keyword(s):  
Geodesic Flow ◽  
Embedded Surfaces

Counting geodesics on a Riemannian manifold and topological entropy of geodesic flows

1997 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 1043-1059 ◽  
Author(s):  
KEITH BURNS ◽  
GABRIEL P. PATERNAIN
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Topological Entropy ◽  
Geodesic Flow ◽  
Positive Measure ◽  
Geodesic Flows ◽  
Open Set ◽  
Negative Questions

Let $M$ be a compact $C^{\infty}$ Riemannian manifold. Given $p$ and $q$ in $M$ and $T>0$, define $n_{T}(p,q)$ as the number of geodesic segments joining $p$ and $q$ with length $\leq T$. Mañé showed in [7] that \[ \lim_{T\rightarrow \infty}\frac{1}{T}\log \int_{M\times M}n_{T}(p,q)\,dp\,dq = h_{\rm top}, \] where $h_{\rm top}$ denotes the topological entropy of the geodesic flow of $M$.In this paper we exhibit an open set of metrics on the two-sphere for which \[ \limsup_{T\rightarrow\infty}\frac{1}{T}\log n_{T}(p,q)< h_{\rm top}, \] for a positive measure set of $(p,q)\in M\times M$. This answers in the negative questions raised by Mañé in [7].

scholarly journals Coding of geodesics and Lorenz-like templates for some geodesic flows

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 940-960
Author(s):  
PIERRE DEHORNOY ◽  
TALI PINSKY
Keyword(s):  
Periodic Orbits ◽  
Tangent Bundle ◽  
Geodesic Flow ◽  
Hyperbolic Metric ◽  
Geodesic Flows ◽  
Unit Tangent Bundle

We construct a template with two ribbons that describes the topology of all periodic orbits of the geodesic flow on the unit tangent bundle to any sphere with three cone points with hyperbolic metric. The construction relies on the existence of a particular coding with two letters for the geodesics on these orbifolds.

scholarly journals Equidistribution results for geodesic flows

2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 742-764
Author(s):  
ABDELHAMID AMROUN
Keyword(s):  
Geodesic Flow ◽  
Large Deviation ◽  
Riemannian Metric ◽  
Upper Bounds ◽  
Equilibrium States ◽  
Topological Pressure ◽  
Probability Measures ◽  
Geodesic Flows ◽  
Lower And Upper Bounds ◽  
Unit Tangent Bundle

AbstractUsing the works of Mañé [On the topological entropy of the geodesic flows.J. Differential Geom.45(1989), 74–93] and Paternain [Topological pressure for geodesic flows.Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér.(4)33(2000), 121–138] we study the distribution of geodesic arcs with respect to equilibrium states of the geodesic flow on a closed manifold, equipped with a$\mathcal {C}^{\infty }$Riemannian metric. We prove large-deviation lower and upper bounds and a contraction principle for the geodesic flow in the space of probability measures of the unit tangent bundle. We deduce a way of approximating equilibrium states for continuous potentials.

On a conjecture about expansive geodesic flows

1996 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 545-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Oswaldo Ruggierot
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Geodesic Flow ◽  
Compact Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Conjugate Points ◽  
Geodesic Flows

AbstractWe show that near the geodesic flow of a compact Riemannian manifold with no conjugate points which is expansive, every expansive geodesic flow has no conjugate points. We also prove that in the above hypotheses the geodesic flow istopologically stable.

scholarly journals Geodesic flows of negatively curved manifolds with smooth stable and unstable foliations

1988 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masahiko Kanai
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Sectional Curvature ◽  
Riemannian Manifolds ◽  
Geodesic Flow ◽  
Negative Curvature ◽  
Geodesic Flows ◽  
Constant Negative Curvature ◽  
Curved Manifolds ◽  
Negatively Curved ◽  
Closed Riemannian Manifold

AbstractWe are concerned with closed C∞ riemannian manifolds of negative curvature whose geodesic flows have C∞ stable and unstable foliations. In particular, we show that the geodesic flow of such a manifold is isomorphic to that of a certain closed riemannian manifold of constant negative curvature if the dimension of the manifold is greater than two and if the sectional curvature lies between − and −1 strictly.

scholarly journals Integrable geodesic flows on tubular sub-manifolds

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3-4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Томас Уотерс
Keyword(s):  
Geodesic Flow ◽  
Geodesic Flows ◽  
Jacobi Fields ◽  
3 Dimensional ◽  
New Class ◽  
Integrable Geodesic Flows ◽  
Do So

In this paper we construct a new class of surfaces whose geodesic flow is integrable (in the sense of Liouville). We do so by generalizing the notion of tubes about curves to 3-dimensional manifolds, and using Jacobi fields we derive conditions under which the metric of the generalized tubular sub-manifold admits an ignorable coordinate. Some examples are given, demonstrating that these special surfaces can be quite elaborate and varied.

scholarly journals Geodesic flows on manifolds of negative curvature with smooth horospheric foliations

1991 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 653-686 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renato Feres
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Sectional Curvature ◽  
Tangent Bundle ◽  
Geodesic Flow ◽  
Negative Curvature ◽  
Geodesic Flows ◽  
Constant Negative Curvature ◽  
Unit Tangent Bundle ◽  
Tangent Bundles ◽  
Negative Sectional Curvature

AbstractWe improve and extend a result due to M. Kanai about rigidity of geodesic flows on closed Riemannian manifolds of negative curvature whose stable or unstable horospheric foliation is smooth. More precisely, the main results proved here are: (1) Let M be a closed C∞ Riemannian manifold of negative sectional curvature. Assume the stable or unstable foliation of the geodesic flow φt: V → V on the unit tangent bundle V of M is C∞. Assume, moreover, that either (a) the sectional curvature of M satisfies −4 < K ≤ −1 or (b) the dimension of M is odd. Then the geodesic flow of M is C∞-isomorphic (i.e., conjugate under a C∞ diffeomorphism between the unit tangent bundles) to the geodesic flow on a closed Riemannian manifold of constant negative curvature. (2) For M as above, assume instead of (a) or (b) that dim M ≡ 2(mod 4). Then either the above conclusion holds or φ1, is C∞-isomorphic to the flow , on the quotient Γ\, where Γ is a subgroup of a real Lie group ⊂ Diffeo () with Lie algebra is the geodesic flow on the unit tangent bundle of the complex hyperbolic space ℂHm, m = ½ dim M.

scholarly journals Escape of mass and entropy for geodesic flows

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 446-473
Author(s):  
FELIPE RIQUELME ◽  
ANIBAL VELOZO
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Geodesic Flow ◽  
Upper Semicontinuity ◽  
Geodesic Flows ◽  
Parabolic Subgroups ◽  
Hölder Continuous ◽  
Upper Semicontinuous ◽  
Negatively Curved ◽  
Geometrically Finite ◽  
Loss Of Mass

In this paper, we study the ergodic theory of the geodesic flow on negatively curved geometrically finite manifolds. We prove that the measure-theoretical entropy is upper semicontinuous when there is no loss of mass. In the case where mass is lost, the critical exponents of parabolic subgroups of the fundamental group have a significant meaning. More precisely, the failure of upper-semicontinuity of the entropy is determined by the maximal parabolic critical exponent. We also study the pressure of positive Hölder-continuous potentials going to zero through the cusps. We prove that the pressure map $t\mapsto P(tF)$ is differentiable until it undergoes a phase transition, after which it becomes constant. This description allows us, in particular, to compute the entropy of the geodesic flow at infinity.

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