A family of stable diffusions

Publication date 23 December 2018

Abstract: Consider a

C^{i n f t y}

closed connected Riemannian manifold

(M, g)

with negative curvature. The unit tangent bundle

S M

is foliated by the (weak) stable foliation

m a t h c a l W^{s}

of the geodesic flow. Let

D e l t a^{s}

be the leafwise Laplacian for

m a t h c a l W^{s}

and let

o v e r l i n e X

be the geodesic spray, i.e., the vector field that generates the geodesic flow. For each

l a m b d a

, the operator

m a t h c a l L_{l a m b d a} := D e l t a^{s} + l a m b d a o v e r l i n e X

generates a diffusion for

m a t h c a l W^{s}

. We show that, as

l a m b d a o - i n f t y

, the unique stationary probability measure for the leafwise diffusion of

m a t h c a l L_{l a m b d a}

converges to the normalized Lebesgue measure on

S M

.

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