Logarithmic laws and unique ergodicity

DOI10.3934/JMD.2017022MaRDI QIDQ1630375zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jon Chaika, Rodrigo Treviño

Publication date 10 December 2018

Published in Journal of Modern Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.00076

zbMATH Keywords

logarithm lawstranslation surfacesunique ergodicity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Ergodicity, mixing, rates of mixing (37A25)

Abstract: We show that Masur's logarithmic law of geodesics in the moduli space of translation surfaces does not imply unique ergodicity of the translation flow, but that a similar law involving the flat systole of a Teichm"{u}ller geodesic does imply unique ergodicity. It shows that the flat geometry has a better control on ergodic properties of translation flow than hyperbolic geometry.

Review text

The use of renormalization dynamics (Teichmüller geodesic flow) to understand the ergodic theory of translation flows and interval exchange transformations was pioneered by Masur and Veech. Masur showed that a sufficient condition for unique ergodicity of a translation flow is that the associated Teichmüller geodesic trajectory is non-divergent in moduli space. He also showed that almost every geodesic satisfies a \textit{logarithm law} which governs its excursions to the cusp as measured by the Teichmüller metric. In this paper, the authors show a refinement of Masur's sufficient condition: they show that if the \textit{flat systole} of the surface satisfies a logarithm law along a Teichmüller geodesic, this implies unique ergodicity. They also show that the corresponding statement for Teichmüller distance does \textit{not} imply unique ergodicity.

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