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Besicovitch-Federer projection theorem and geodesic flows on Riemann surfaces

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2012-12-13 v2 Differential Geometry Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We extend the Besicovitch-Federer projection theorem to transversal families of mappings. As an application we show that on a certain class of Riemann surfaces with constant negative curvature and with boundary, there exist natural 2-dimensional measures invariant under the geodesic flow having 2-dimensional supports such that their projections to the base manifold are 2-dimensional but the supports of the projections are Lebesgue negligible. In particular, the union of complete geodesics has Hausdorff dimension 2 and is Lebesgue negligible.

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@article{arxiv.1104.3453,
  title  = {Besicovitch-Federer projection theorem and geodesic flows on Riemann surfaces},
  author = {Risto Hovila and Esa Järvenpää and Maarit Järvenpää and François Ledrappier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.3453},
  year   = {2012}
}

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12 pages

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