The Weil-Petersson geodesic flow is ergodic

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2012.175.2.8zbMATH Open1254.37005arXiv1004.5343OpenAlexW2962817192WikidataQ101223189 ScholiaQ101223189MaRDI QIDQ410116FDOQ410116

Authors: Keith Burns, Amie Wilkinson, Howard Masur 

Publication date: 17 April 2012

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

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.

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

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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)

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