Flexibility of geometric and dynamical data in fixed conformal classes

DOI10.1512/IUMJ.2020.69.7862MaRDI QIDQ5109043zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas Barthelmé, Alena Erchenko

Publication date 7 May 2020

Published in Indiana University Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.09234

zbMATH Keywords

metric entropygeodesic flowGaussian curvatureLaplace spectrum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Entropy and other invariants (28D20) Entropy and other invariants, isomorphism, classification in ergodic theory (37A35) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) Flows related to mean curvature (53E10)

Abstract: Consider a smooth closed surface $M$ of fixed genus $geqslant2$ with a hyperbolic metric $sigma$ of total area $A$. In this article, we study the behavior of geometric and dynamical characteristics (e.g., diameter, Laplace spectrum, Gaussian curvature and entropies) of nonpositively curved smooth metrics with total area $A$ conformally equivalent to $sigma$. For such metrics, we show that the diameter is bounded above and the Laplace spectrum is bounded below away from zero by constants which depend on $sigma$. On the other hand, we prove that the metric entropy of the geodesic flow with respect to the Liouville measure is flexible. Consequently, we also provide the first known example showing that the bottom of the $L^2$-spectrum of the Laplacian cannot be bounded from above by a function of the metric entropy. We also provide examples showing that our conditions are essential for the established bounds.

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