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Ergodicity of a surgered flow on unit tangent bundle of hyperbolic surface

Dynamical Systems 2023-07-18 v1 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

Starting with a trivial periodic flow on SM\mathbb{S}M, the unit tangent bundle of a genus two surface, we perform a Dehn-type surgery on the manifold around a tubular neighborhood of a curve on SM\mathbb{S}M that projects to a self-intersecting closed geodesic on MM, to get a surgered flow which restricted to the surgery region is ergodic with respect to the volume measure. The surgered flow projects to a map on the surgery track that can be taken to be a linked twist map with oppositely oriented shears which generates the ergodic behavior for sufficiently strong shears in the surgery.

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@article{arxiv.2307.08126,
  title  = {Ergodicity of a surgered flow on unit tangent bundle of hyperbolic surface},
  author = {Aritro Pathak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.08126},
  year   = {2023}
}