Quasigeodesic Anosov flows and homotopic properties of flow lines (Q1891968)

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Quasigeodesic Anosov flows and homotopic properties of flow lines
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    Quasigeodesic Anosov flows and homotopic properties of flow lines (English)
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    7 March 1996
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    The author uses tools from topology and dynamical systems to give a detailed analysis of the global structure of a quasigeodesic Anosov flow \(\varphi\) on a compact 3-manifold \(M\) whose fundamental group \(\pi_1 (M)\) is Gromov-hyperbolic. Here a flow is called quasi-geodesic if the lift to the universal covering \(\widetilde {M}\) of \(M\) of any orbit of \(\varphi\) in \(M\) is a quasi-geodesic with respect to any \(\pi_1 (M)\)- periodic metric. It is shown that such flows are fundamentally different from suspensions of Anosov-diffeomorphisms or geodesic flows on surfaces. Namely the leaf-space \({\mathcal H}^s\) of the stable foliation \({\mathcal F}^s\) in \(\widetilde {M}\) is not Hausdorff. The number of non- Hausdorff points in \({\mathcal H}\) is finite, and every such point corresponds to a non-trivial free homotopy between two different closed orbits of \(\varphi\) in \(M\). The limit set \(\Lambda_F\) of any leaf \(F\) of \({\mathcal F}^s\) in the ideal boundary \(S^2_\infty\) of \(\widetilde {M}\) is neither a Jordan curve, nor the whole sphere. Again, an identification in \(\Lambda_F\) of two distinct points in the intrinsic boundary of \(F\) corresponds to an end-point in \(S^2_\infty\) of lift of two freely homotopic closed orbits of \(\varphi\) in \(M\).
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    hyperbolic group
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    non-trivial free homotopy between closed orbits
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    leaf- space of the stable foliation
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    quasigeodesic Anosov flow
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    compact 3- manifold
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    fundamental group
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    non-Hausdorff points
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    limit set
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