Anosov flows and Liouville pairs in dimension three
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 gives rise to a Liouville structure on 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.
Cite
@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