On the Pesin set of expansive geodesic flows in manifolds with no conjugate points (Q1416081)

The paper studies the Pesin set of expansive geodesic flows in compact manifolds without conjugate points and bounded asymptote. The main result is as follows. Theorem A. Let \(\mathcal M\) be a compact Riemannian manifold with no conjugate points, bounded asymptote and whose geodesic flow is expansive. Then the Pesin set of the geodesic flow coincides a.e. with an open and dense set of the unit tangent bundle. Moreover, the set of closed hyperbolic geodesics is dense in the unit tangent bundle. The Pesin set of the geodesic flow of a compact rank one manifold of nonpositive curvature is known to coincide a.e. with an open and dense set. Theorem A extends this feature to expansive geodesic flows in compact manifolds with bounded asymptote.