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Unique equilibrium states for geodesic flows on flat surfaces with singularities

Dynamical Systems 2022-08-29 v5

Abstract

Consider a compact surface of genus 2\geq 2 equipped with a metric that is flat everywhere except at finitely many cone points with angles greater than 2π2\pi. Following the technique in the work of Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher, and Thompson, we prove that sufficiently regular potential functions have unique equilibrium states if the singular set does not support the full pressure. Moreover, we show that the pressure gap holds for any potential which is locally constant on a neighborhood of the singular set. Finally, we establish that the corresponding equilibrium states have the KK-property, and closed regular geodesics equidistribute.

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@article{arxiv.2101.11806,
  title  = {Unique equilibrium states for geodesic flows on flat surfaces with singularities},
  author = {Benjamin Call and David Constantine and Alena Erchenko and Noelle Sawyer and Grace Work},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.11806},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Minor changes, final version to appear in IMRN. 38 pages, 5 figures

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