Characterization of geodesic flows on T^2 with and without positive topological entropy

DOI10.1007/S00039-010-0087-2MaRDI QIDQ607661zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eva Glasmachers, Gerhard Knieper

Publication date 3 December 2010

Published in Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.0666

zbMATH Keywords

torustopological entropygeodesic flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamics induced by flows and semiflows (37C10) Smooth ergodic theory, invariant measures for smooth dynamical systems (37C40) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

Abstract: In the present work we consider the behavior of the geodesic flow on the unit tangent bundle of the 2-torus $T^2$ for an arbitrary Riemannian metric. A natural non-negative quantity which measures the complexity of the geodesic flow is the topological entropy. In particular, positive topological entropy implies chaotic behavior on an invariant set in the phase space of positive Hausdorff-dimension (horseshoe). We show that in the case of zero topological entropy the flow has properties similar to integrable systems. In particular there exists a non-trivial continuous constant of motion which measures the direction of geodesics lifted onto the universal covering $B{r}^2$. Furthermore, those geodesics travel in strips bounded by Euclidean lines. Moreover we derive necessary and sufficient conditions for vanishing topological entropy involving intersection properties of single geodesics on $T^2$.

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