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Flexibility of entropies for surfaces of negative curvature

Dynamical Systems 2017-10-03 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We consider a smooth closed surface MM of fixed genus 2\geqslant 2 with a Riemannian metric gg of negative curvature with fixed total area. The second author has shown that the topological entropy of geodesic flow for gg is greater than or equal to the topological entropy for the metric of constant negative curvature on MM 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 gg. 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