Topological entropy and blocking cost for geodesics in Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.1007/S10711-008-9296-3zbMATH Open1192.37037arXiv0711.1662OpenAlexW2079427440MaRDI QIDQ1014909FDOQ1014909

Authors: Eugene Gutkin 

Publication date: 29 April 2009

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For a pair of points $x,y$ in a compact, riemannian manifold $M$ let $n_t(x,y)$ (resp. $s_t(x,y)$) be the number of geodesic segments with length $leqt$ joining these points (resp. the minimal number of point obstacles needed to block them). We study relationships between the growth rates of $n_t(x,y)$ and $s_t(x,y)$ as $toinfty$. We derive lower bounds on $s_t(x,y)$ in terms of the topological entropy $h(M)$ and its fundamental group. This strengthens the results of Burns-Gutkin cite{BG06} and Lafont-Schmidt cite{LS}. For instance, by cite{BG06,LS}, $h(M)>0$ implies that $s$ is unbounded; we show that $s$ grows exponentially, with the rate at least $h(M)/2$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.1662

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zbMATH Keywords

topological entropyfundamental groupflatnessconnecting geodesicsblocking costcounting geodesicsReimannian manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

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