Divergent trajectories on noncompact parameter spaces (Q1889819)

To quote from the article: ``The pioneers of dynamical systems theory were interested primarily in physical systems, for example, planetary motion, and began by studying the asymptotic behaviour of typical trajectories. In recent developments, researchers motivated by classical problems in pure mathematics were led to consider dynamical systems on various parametrizing spaces, and to (study) questions about special trajectories. (\dots) The parameter spaces which are studied from this point of view, for example the space of lattices \({\text{SL}}(n,{\mathbb R})/{\text{SL}}(n,{\mathbb Z})\), (\dots) are often noncompact orbifolds which carry a smooth finite invariant measure. Hence by Poincaré recurrence, a typical orbit returns along an unbounded sequence of times to any neighbourhood of its starting point. At the opposite extreme are the divergent trajectories, that is, trajectories which eventually escape any compact subset of the space. Such atypical trajectories are very interesting for applications. (\dots) Our goal is a systematic study of divergent trajectories on noncompact parameter spaces.'' Among the main problems addressed in the paper are the existence of divergent trajectories, the reasons to escape (``obvious versus nonobvious'' ones), as well as the rates of divergence. An abstract setting for constructing divergent trajectories forms the subject of Chapter 2, flows on homogeneous spaces are considered in Chapters 3--5, and quadratic differential spaces in Chapter 6.