Logarithmic laws and unique ergodicity
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Logarithmic laws and unique ergodicity
zbMATH Open document ID: 1436.30038
author: Jon Chaika
author: Rodrigo Treviño
published in: Journal of Modern Dynamics
publication date: 2018-12-10T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.00076
review text: The use of renormalization dynamics (Teichmüller geodesic flow) to understand the ergodic theory of translation flows and interval exchange transformations was pioneered by Masur and Veech. Masur showed that a sufficient condition for unique ergodicity of a translation flow is that the associated Teichmüller geodesic trajectory is non-divergent in moduli space. He also showed that almost every geodesic satisfies a \textit{logarithm law} which governs its excursions to the cusp as measured by the Teichmüller metric. In this paper, the authors show a refinement of Masur's sufficient condition: they show that if the \textit{flat systole} of the surface satisfies a logarithm law along a Teichmüller geodesic, this implies unique ergodicity. They also show that the corresponding statement for Teichmüller distance does \textit{not} imply unique ergodicity.
reviewed by: Jayadev S. Athreya
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 30F60
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 37A25
zbMATH DE Number: 6991113
zbMATH Keywords: unique ergodicity
zbMATH Keywords: translation surfaces
zbMATH Keywords: logarithm laws
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W2962935260
arXiv ID: 1603.00076
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DOI: 10.3934/JMD.2017022
description: scientific article