On the ergodicity of geodesic flows

DOI10.1017/S0143385700001632zbMath0519.58036MaRDI QIDQ3668544

Michael Brin, Werner Ballmann

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Jacobi fieldLiouville measureLebesgue measurehorosphere

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) Ergodic theory (37A99) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40)

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Cites Work

• Lyapunov exponents, entropy and periodic orbits for diffeomorphisms
• CHARACTERISTIC LYAPUNOV EXPONENTS AND SMOOTH ERGODIC THEORY
• GEODESIC FLOWS ON CLOSED RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLDS WITHOUT FOCAL POINTS
• Geodesic Flows on Negatively Curved Manifolds. II

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