Boundaries of non-compact harmonic manifolds (Q2439353)

The paper under review concerns the problem of classification of harmonic Riemannian manifolds, c.f. [\textit{A. Lichnerowicz}, Bull. Soc. Math. Fr. 72, 146--168 (1944; Zbl 0060.38506); \textit{A. G. Walker}, J. Lond. Math. Soc. 24, 21--28 (1949; Zbl 0032.18801); \textit{Z. I. Szabó}, J. Differ. Geom. 31, No. 1, 1--28 (1990;, Zbl 0686.53042); \textit{E. Damek} and \textit{F. Ricci}, Bull. Am. Math. Soc., New Ser. 27, No. 1, 139--142 (1992; Zbl 0755.53032); \textit{J. Heber}, Geom. Funct. Anal. 16, No. 4, 869--890 (2006; Zbl 1108.53022); \textit{G. Knieper}, Comment. Math. Helv. 87, No. 3, 669--703 (2012; Zbl 1287.53056)]. It is shown that for a non-flat, non-compact, simply connected harmonic manifold \(X\) the Martin boundary and the Busemann boundary coincide. Moreover, it is proved that if \(M\) is a non-flat finite volume harmonic manifold without conjugate points and \(X\) is the universal Riemannian cover of \(M\) with deck transformations \(\Gamma=\pi_1(M)\subset \mathrm{Isom} (X)\), then up to scaling there exists a unique \(\Gamma\)-Patterson-Sullivan measure on the Buseman boundary of \(X\); besides, the Patterson-Sullivan measures coincides with the harmonic measures under the natural identification of the Busemann boundary and Martin boundary. As consequence, it is stated that if \(M\) is a non-flat finite volume harmonic manifold without conjugate points, then the geodesic flow is topologically transitive on \(SM\).