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Entropy of semiclassical measures for nonpositively curved surfaces

Dynamical Systems 2011-02-24 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study the asymptotic properties of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian in the case of a compact Riemannian surface of nonpositive sectional curvature. We show that the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy of a semiclassical measure for the geodesic flow is bounded from below by half of the Ruelle upper bound. We follow the same main strategy as in the Anosov case (arXiv:0809.0230). We focus on the main differences and refer the reader to (arXiv:0809.0230) for the details of analogous lemmas.

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@article{arxiv.0911.1840,
  title  = {Entropy of semiclassical measures for nonpositively curved surfaces},
  author = {Gabriel Riviere},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.1840},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

20 pages. This note provides a detailed proof of a result announced in appendix A of a previous work (arXiv:0809.0230, version 2)