Gromov's amenable localization and geodesic flows

DOI10.1007/S12346-021-00448-YMaRDI QIDQ830144zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gabriel Katz

Publication date 7 May 2021

Published in Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.06151

zbMATH Keywords

geodesic flowstraversally generic flowslocalized Poincaré duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) Singularities of vector fields, topological aspects (58K45) Stratifications in topological manifolds (57N80)

Abstract: Let $M$ be a compact smooth Riemannian $n$-manifold with boundary. We combine Gromov's amenable localization technique with the Poincar'{e} duality to study the {sf traversally generic} geodesic flows on $SM$, the space of the spherical tangent bundle. Such flows generate stratifications of $SM$, governed by rich universal combinatorics. The stratification reflects the ways in which the flow trajectories are tangent to the boundary $partial(SM)$. Specifically, we get lower estimates of the numbers of connected components of these flow-generated strata of any given codimension $k$ in terms of the normed homology $H_k(M;mathbfR)$ and $H_k(DM;mathbfR)$, where $DM=Mcu{p}_{partialM}M$ denotes the double of $M$. The norms here are the {sf simplicial semi-norms} in homology. The more complex the metric on $M$ is, the more numerous the strata of $SM$ and $S(DM)$ are. %So one may regard our estimates as analogues of the Morse inequalities for the geodesics on manifolds with boundary. It turns out that the normed homology spaces form obstructions to the existence of globally $k$-{sf convex} traversally generic metrics on $M$. We also prove that knowing the geodesic scattering map on $M$ makes it possible to reconstruct the stratified topological type of the space of geodesics, as well as the amenably localized Poincar'{e} duality operators on $SM$.

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