A criterion for topological entropy to decrease under normalised Ricci flow

DOI10.3934/DCDS.2011.30.1243zbMATH Open1222.37029arXiv0911.3178OpenAlexW2964217467MaRDI QIDQ2275865FDOQ2275865

Authors: Daniel J. Thompson 

Publication date: 10 August 2011

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In 2004, Manning showed that the topological entropy of the geodesic flow for a surface of negative curvature decreases as the metric evolves under the normalised Ricci flow. It is an interesting open problem, also due to Manning, to determine to what extent such behaviour persists for higher dimensional manifolds. In this short note, we describe the problem and give a strong criterion under which monotonicity of the topological entropy can be established for a short time. In particular, the criterion applies to metrics of negative sectional curvature which are in the same conformal class as a metric of constant negative sectional curvature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.3178

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zbMATH Keywords

Ricci flowtopological entropygeodesic flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Entropy and other invariants, isomorphism, classification in ergodic theory (37A35) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40)

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