English

Entropy collapse versus entropy rigidity for Reeb and Finsler flows

Dynamical Systems 2023-12-15 v3 Differential Geometry Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

On every closed contact manifold there exist contact forms with volume one whose Reeb flows have arbitrarily small topological entropy. In contrast, for many closed manifolds there is a uniform positive lower bound for the topological entropy of (not necessarily reversible) normalized Finsler geodesic flows.

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@article{arxiv.2103.01144,
  title  = {Entropy collapse versus entropy rigidity for Reeb and Finsler flows},
  author = {Alberto Abbondandolo and Marcelo R. R. Alves and Murat Saglam and Felix Schlenk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.01144},
  year   = {2023}
}

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minor corrections and two preprints added

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