English

Anosov flows and Liouville pairs in dimension three

Symplectic Geometry 2025-07-02 v3 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

Building upon the work of Mitsumatsu and Hozoori, we establish a complete homotopy correspondence between three-dimensional Anosov flows and certain pairs of contact forms that we call Anosov Liouville pairs. We show a similar correspondence between projectively Anosov flows and bi-contact structures, extending the work of Mitsumatsu and Eliashberg-Thurston. As a consequence, every Anosov flow on a closed oriented three-manifold MM gives rise to a Liouville structure on R×M\mathbb{R} \times M which is well-defined up to homotopy, and which only depends on the homotopy class of the Anosov flow. Our results also provide a new perspective on the classification problem of Anosov flows in dimension three.

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@article{arxiv.2211.11036,
  title  = {Anosov flows and Liouville pairs in dimension three},
  author = {Thomas Massoni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.11036},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

48 pages, 5 figures. V2: minor corrections and clarifications based on anonymous referee suggestions. V3: introduction slightly modified, various minor improvements. To appear in Algebraic & Geometric Topology