Free energy for Brownian and geodesic homology (Q1892258)

Let \(\xi_ t\) be a Brownian motion on a compact \(d\)-dimensional Riemannian manifold of constant curvature \(-1\) and \(\theta_ t\) be the corresponding geodesic flow on the unit tangent bundle. The author gives an easy proof for the existence and analyticity (as functions on the harmonic 1-forms) of the free energies \(\lambda(\bullet) \geq 0\) of the Brownian and \(\pi(\bullet) \geq 0\) of the geodesic homologies. Explicit formulae for \(\lambda\) and \(\pi\) are given and the relation \(2 \lambda = (d - 1) \pi + \pi^ 2\) is established.