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Transitive Anosov flows on non-compact manifolds

Dynamical Systems 2025-10-09 v2

Abstract

In this article we study topological transitivity of Anosov flows on non-compact 3-manifolds. We provide homological conditions under which the lifts of a transitive Anosov flow to certain infinite covers of the manifold remain transitive. With some deep results in 3-manifold topology, we then deduce that such cover can be obtained for any non-graph manifold admitting a transitive Anosov flow. Moreover, for a large class of Anosov flows known as R\mathbb{R}-covered, which are always transitive, we show that their lifts to any regular covers are either transitive or consist exclusively of wandering orbits. Finally, we construct a family of transitive Anosov flows on non-compact manifolds that satisfy a homotopical characterization of suspension flows, answering the flow version of a question concerning the existence of transitive Anosov diffeomorphisms on non-compact manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.2503.22975,
  title  = {Transitive Anosov flows on non-compact manifolds},
  author = {Thomas Barthelmé and Lingfeng Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.22975},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

14 pages, 3 figures. v2: Improved notations, fixed typos, beginning of Section 3 rewritten, final accepted version, to appear in Proceedings of the AMS

R2 v1 2026-06-28T22:38:49.826Z