The Weil-Petersson geodesic flow is ergodic

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2012.175.2.8MaRDI QIDQ410116zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Keith Burns, Amie Wilkinson, Howard Masur

Publication date 17 April 2012

Published in Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.5343

zbMATH Keywords

ergodicityRiccati equationsgeodesic flownegative curvatureWeil-Peterssonincomplete Riemannian manifoldssingular and nonuniform hyperbolicity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ergodicity, mixing, rates of mixing (37A25) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40)

Abstract: We prove that the geodesic flow for the Weil-Petersson metric on the moduli space of Riemann surfaces is ergodic (in fact Bernoulli) and has finite, positive metric entropy.

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