Pressure gaps, geometric potentials, and nonpositively curved manifolds

Authors Dong Chen, Lien-Yung Kao, Kiho Park

Publication date 13 September 2022

Smooth ergodic theory, invariant measures for smooth dynamical systems (37C40) Thermodynamic formalism, variational principles, equilibrium states for dynamical systems (37D35) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40)

Abstract: In this paper, we derive a general pressure gap criterion for closed rank 1 manifolds whose singular sets are given by codimension 1 totally geodesic flat subtori. As an application, we show that under certain curvature constraints, potentials that decay faster than geometric potentials (towards to the singular set) have pressure gaps and have no phase transitions. Along the way, we prove that geometric potentials are H"older continuous near singular sets.

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