English

Ergodicity and equidistribution in Hilbert geometry

Dynamical Systems 2021-11-08 v2 Group Theory Geometric Topology

Abstract

We show that dynamical and counting results characteristic of negatively-curved Riemannian geometry, or more generally CAT(1-1) or rank-one CAT(00) spaces, also hold for rank-one properly convex projective structures, equipped with their Hilbert metrics, admitting finite Sullivan measures built from appropriate conformal densities. In particular, this includes geometrically finite convex projective structures. More specifically, with respect to the Sullivan measure, the Hilbert geodesic flow is strongly mixing, and orbits and primitive closed geodesics equidistribute, allowing us to asymptotically enumerate these objects.

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@article{arxiv.2106.08079,
  title  = {Ergodicity and equidistribution in Hilbert geometry},
  author = {Pierre-Louis Blayac and Feng Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.08079},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

60 pages, 1 figure. v2: Introduction modified, new section on counting conjugacy classes. Comments welcome!

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