Phase transitions for geodesic flows and the geometric potential

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Authors Anibal Velozo

Publication date 9 April 2017

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Thermodynamic formalism, variational principles, equilibrium states for dynamical systems (37D35) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40)

Abstract: In this paper we study the phenomenon of phase transitions for the geodesic flow on some geometrically finite negatively curved manifolds. We define a class of potentials going slowly to zero through the cusps of $M$ for which the pressure map exhibits a phase transition. By a careful choice of the metric at the cusp we construct a geometrically finite manifold for which the geometric potential (or unstable Jacobian) exhibits a phase transition. Our results apply, in particular, to the geodesic flow on an $M$-puncture sphere, for every $Mge3$, and a suitable choice of Riemannian metric.

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