On Riemannian manifolds with topological transitive geodesic flows (Q1175972)
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On Riemannian manifolds with topological transitive geodesic flows (English)
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25 June 1992
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The author obtains some properties of complete Riemannian manifolds \((M,g)\) with topologically transitive geodesic flow. The most interesting of them are the following: (i) The Lie group of isometries of \((M,g)\) is discrete. (ii) Let \(f: (M,g)\rightarrow (M',g')\) be a diffeomorphism that maps non-parametrized geodesics to non- parametrized geodesics. Then \(f\) is a homothety. (iii) Let \(\rho\) be the Ricci tensor of \((M,g)\). If \(\nabla_ x\rho(X,X)=0\) for every vector field \(X\) on \(M\), then \(\rho=\text{const.}g\).
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geodesic map
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Riemannian manifolds
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geodesic flow
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homothety
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Ricci tensor
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