Symbolic dynamics for three-dimensional flows with positive topological entropy (Q1757301)

Summary: We construct symbolic dynamics on sets of full measure (with respect to an ergodic measure of positive entropy) for \(C^{1+\varepsilon}\) flows on closed smooth three-dimensional manifolds. One consequence is that the geodesic flow on the unit tangent bundle of a closed \(C^\infty\) surface has at least const \(\times e^{hT}/T\) simple closed orbits of period less than \(T\), whenever the topological entropy \(h\) is positive -- and without further assumptions on the curvature.