Flexibility of entropies for surfaces of negative curvature
Dynamical Systems
2017-10-03 v1 Differential Geometry
Abstract
We consider a smooth closed surface of fixed genus with a Riemannian metric of negative curvature with fixed total area. The second author has shown that the topological entropy of geodesic flow for is greater than or equal to the topological entropy for the metric of constant negative curvature on with the same total area which is greater than or equal to the metric entropy with respect to the Liouville measure of geodesic flow for . Equality holds only in the case of constant negative curvature. We prove that those are the only restrictions on the values of topological and metric entropies for metrics of negative curvature.
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@article{arxiv.1710.00079,
title = {Flexibility of entropies for surfaces of negative curvature},
author = {Alena Erchenko and Anatole Katok},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.00079},
year = {2017}
}
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34 pages, 12 figures