Ergodic properties of the stable foliations

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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0744.00035.] If \(M\) is a compact Riemannian manifold with a continuous foliation \(\mathcal F\), then \textit{L. Garnett} proved [J. Funct. Anal. 51, 285-311 (1983; Zbl 0524.58026)] that there is a harmonic measure \(m\) associated with \({\mathcal F}\), i.e. a probability measure such that \[ \int \Delta fdm = 0 \] for all continuous functions \(f\) on \(M\) which are \(C^ 2\) in the leaf directions, and where \(\Delta\) is the Laplace Beltrami operator along the leaf direction. In this paper, the author considers the examples of the stable, \(W^ s\), and strong stable, \(W^{ss}\), foliations associated with the geodesic flow on negatively curved compact manifolds. Applying results of \textit{V. A. Kaimanovich} on the study of Brownian motion on continuous foliations of compact manifolds [Funct. Anal. Appl. 22, No. 4, 326-328 (1988); translation from Funkts. Anal. Prilozh. 22, No. 4, 82-83 (1988; Zbl 0675.58039)] and on the regular cover of compact Riemannian manifolds [Sov. Math., Dokl. 33, 812-816 (1986); translation from Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 288, 1045-1049 (1986; Zbl 0615.60074)], the author describes the harmonic measures on the foliations \(W^ s\) and \(W^{ss}\) when they are endowed with the metric lifted from the manifold \(M\). There is also a discussion of applications. Conditional measures on spheres of these measures are related to families of measures on the absolute \(\partial\tilde M\) of the universal cover \(\tilde M\) of \(M\), and rigidity properties of manifolds with negative curvature are expressed in terms of these measures.




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