Zero entropy and bounded topology

DOI10.4171/CMH/53MaRDI QIDQ2493383zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Gabriel P. Paternain, Jimmy Petean

Publication date 12 June 2006

Published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0406051

zbMATH Keywords

elliptic manifoldgeodesic flowtopological entropy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Entropy and other invariants, isomorphism, classification in ergodic theory (37A35) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19)

Abstract: We study the existence of Riemannian metrics with zero topological entropy on a closed manifold M with infinite fundamental group. We show that such a metric does not exist if there is a finite simply connected CW complex which maps to M in such a way that the rank of the map induced in the pointed loop space homology grows exponentially. This result allows us to prove in dimensions four and five, that if M admits a metric with zero entropy then its universal covering has the rational homotopy type of a finite elliptic CW complex. We conjecture that this is the case in every dimension.

Review text

The authors prove that if the geodesic flow on a closed Riemannian manifold has zero topological entropy then there is a finite simply connected CW complex which maps into the manifold in such a way that the rank of the induced homomorphism of the pointed loop space homology grows exponentially. In particular, this implies that if such a manifold is a nilmanifold then the rational homotopy of the manifold is finite-dimensional. The authors state the conjecture which reads that if a closed manifold admits a metric with zero topological entropy then its universal covering is rationally homotopical to a finite elliptic CW complex. In the present paper they prove this for manifolds of dimension 4 and 5.

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