Surfaces of section for geodesic flows of closed surfaces

arXiv2204.11977MaRDI QIDQ6397451FDOQ6397451

G. Contreras, Marco Mazzucchelli, Gerhard Knieper, Author name not available (Why is that?)

Publication date: 25 April 2022

Abstract: We prove several results concerning the existence of surfaces of section for the geodesic flows of closed orientable Riemannian surfaces. The surfaces of section $Sigma$ that we construct are either Birkhoff sections, meaning that they intersect every sufficiently long orbit segment of the geodesic flow, or at least they have some hyperbolic components in $partialSigma$ as limit sets of the orbits of the geodesic flow that do not return to $Sigma$. In order to prove these theorems, we provide a study of configurations of simple closed geodesics of closed orientable Riemannian surfaces, which may have independent interest. Our arguments are based on Grayson's curve shortening flow.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25)

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