Horospheres on abelian covers (Q4366304)

The paper shows an interesting property of infinite abelian covers \(\overline M\) of a closed negatively curved manifold \(M\). Namely, on the one hand there is some unit tangent vector \(v\) for \(\overline M\) such that the strong stable manifold determined by \(v\) is a proper submanifold of the unit tangent bundle \(T^1 \overline M\) of \(\overline M\). In fact, this is true for every vector tangent to a geodesic ray in \(\overline M\). On the other hand, using mixing properties of the geodesic flow on \(M\), it is shown that some strong stable manifold in \(T^1 \overline M\) is dense. Moreover, every strong stable manifold is either proper or dense.