geodesic flowhorosphereconjugate pointsexponential volume growthharmonic manifoldLichnerowicz conjecture
Smooth ergodic theory, invariant measures for smooth dynamical systems (37C40) Uniformly hyperbolic systems (expanding, Anosov, Axiom A, etc.) (37D20) Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Rigidity results (53C24) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43)
Abstract: The Lichnerowicz conjecture asserts that all harmonic manifolds are either flat or locally symmetric spaces of rank~1. This conjecture has been proved by Z. Szab'{o} cite{Sz} for harmonic manifolds with compact universal cover. E. Damek and F. Ricci cite{DR} provided examples showing that in the noncompact case the conjecture is wrong. However, such manifolds do not admit a compact quotient. In this paper we study, using a notion of rank, the asymptotic geometry and the geodesic flow on simply connected nonflat and noncompact harmonic manifolds denoted by . In the first part of the paper we show that the following assertions are equivalent. The volume growth is purely exponential, the rank of is one, the geodesic flow is Anosov with respect to the Sasaki metric, is Gromov hyperbolic. In the second part of the paper we show that the geodesic flow is Anosov if is a nonflat harmonic manifold with no focal points. In the course of the proof we obtain that certain partially hyperbolic flows on arbitrary Riemannian manifolds without focal points are Anosov, which is of interest beyond harmonic manifolds. Combining the results of this paper with the rigidity theorem's of cite{BCG}, cite{BFL} and cite{FL}, we confirm the Lichnerowicz conjecture for all compact harmonic manifolds without focal points or with Gromov hyperbolic fundamental groups.
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