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A solution to Flinn's conjecture on weakly expansive flows

Dynamical Systems 2020-10-22 v2

Abstract

In L.W. Flinn's PhD thesis published in 1972, the author conjectured that weakly expansive flows are also expansive flows. In this paper we use the horocycle flow on compact Riemann surfaces of constant negative curvature to show that Flinn's conjecture is not true.

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@article{arxiv.1909.10028,
  title  = {A solution to Flinn's conjecture on weakly expansive flows},
  author = {Huynh Minh Hien},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.10028},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

final version. To appear in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1906.04839

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