On the ergodicity of geodesic flows on surfaces of nonpositive curvature

DOI10.5802/AFST.1457MaRDI QIDQ744951zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Weisheng Wu

Publication date 12 October 2015

Published in Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse. Mathématiques. Série VI (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.6539

zbMATH Keywords

geodesicsgeodesic flownegative curvatureLiouville measure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ergodicity, mixing, rates of mixing (37A25) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25)

Abstract: Let $M$ be a smooth compact surface of nonpositive curvature, with genus $geq2$. We prove the ergodicity of the geodesic flow on the unit tangent bundle of $M$ with respect to the Liouville measure under the condition that the set of points with negative curvature on $M$ has finitely many connected components. Under the same condition, we prove that a non closed "flat" geodesic doesn't exist, and moreover, there are at most finitely many flat strips, and at most finitely many isolated closed "flat" geodesics.

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