On the Patterson-Sullivan measure for geodesic flows on rank 1 manifolds without focal points

DOI10.3934/DCDS.2020085MaRDI QIDQ2301692zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 25 February 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04398

zbMATH Keywords

Patterson-Sullivan measuregeodesic flowsmeasure of maximal entropyno focal points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological entropy (37B40) Smooth ergodic theory, invariant measures for smooth dynamical systems (37C40) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25)

Abstract: In this article, we consider the geodesic flow on a compact rank $1$ Riemannian manifold $M$ without focal points, whose universal cover is denoted by $X$. On the ideal boundary $X(infty)$ of $X$, we show the existence and uniqueness of the Busemann density, which is realized via the Patterson-Sullivan measure. Based on the the Patterson-Sullivan measure, we show that the geodesic flow on $M$ has a unique invariant measure of maximal entropy. We also obtain the asymptotic growth rate of the volume of geodesic spheres in $X$ and the growth rate of the number of closed geodesics on $M$. These results generalize the work of Margulis and Knieper in the case of negative and nonpositive curvature respectively.

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