Metric with ergodic geodesic flow is completely determined by unparameterized geodesics

DOI10.1090/S1079-6762-00-00086-XzbMath0979.53032MaRDI QIDQ4523229

Peter J. Topalov, Vladimir S. Matveev

Publication date: 8 January 2001

Published in: Electronic Research Announcements of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/231946

zbMATH Keywords

projectively equivalent metrics; ergodic geodesic flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

37J35: Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests

53C22: Geodesics in global differential geometry

53C20: Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching

37C40: Smooth ergodic theory, invariant measures for smooth dynamical systems

53D25: Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry

37D40: Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.)

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