Counting closed geodesics on rank one manifolds

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Authors Roland Gunesch

Publication date 19 June 2007

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems and ergodic theory (37-XX) Differential geometry (53-XX)

Abstract: We establish a precise asymptotic formula for the number of homotopy classes of periodic orbits for the geodesic flow on rank one manifolds of nonpositive curvature. This extends a celebrated result of G. A. Margulis to the nonuniformly hyperbolic case and strengthens previous results by G. Knieper. We also establish some useful properties of the measure of maximal entropy.

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