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We complete the theoretical framework required for the construction of a Morse homology theory for certain types of forced mean curvature flows. The main result of this paper describes the asymptotic behaviour of these flows as the forcing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-15 Graham Smith

We construct geometrically infinite hyperbolic surfaces supporting horocycles with tailored recurrence properties. In particular, we obtain the first examples of non-trivial minimal horocyclic orbit closures and of infinite locally-finite…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Françoise Dal'bo , James Farre , Or Landesberg , Yair Minsky

We show that the horocyclic flow of an orientable compact higher genus surface without conjugate points and with continuous Green bundles is uniquely ergodic. The result applies to nonflat nonpositively curved surfaces and generalizes a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-01-04 Sergi Burniol Clotet

In this paper we study aspects of the ergodic theory of the geodesic flow on a non-compact negatively curved manifold. It is a well known fact that every continuous potential on a compact metric space has a maximizing measure.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Felipe Riquelme , Anibal Velozo

Mixing-via-shearing is a powerful and versatile method for establishing mixing properties of smooth parabolic flows. In its quantitative form, it provides upper bounds on the decay of correlations for sufficiently smooth observables.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Davide Ravotti

We introduce the shifted inverse curvature flow in hyperbolic space. This is a family of hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space expanding by $F^{-p}$ with positive power $p$ for a smooth, symmetric, strictly increasing and $1$-homogeneous…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-03 Xianfeng Wang , Yong Wei , Tailong Zhou

We consider smooth area-preserving flows (also known as locally Hamiltonian flows) on surfaces of genus $g\geq 1$ and study ergodic integrals of smooth observables along the flow trajectories. We show that these integrals display a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Krzysztof Frączek , Corinna Ulcigrai

We discuss some classical and recent results and open problems on the statistical behavior of ergodic sums above toral translations, and their applications to Diophantine approximations and to ergodic properties of systems related to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Dmitry Dolgopyat , Bassam Fayad

We prove some ergodic theorems for flat surfaces of finite area. The first result concerns such surfaces whose Teichmuller orbits are recurrent to a compact subset of $SL(2;R)/SL(S)$, where $SL(S)$ is the Veech group of the surface. In this…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-05-26 Rodrigo Treviño

A celebrated result of Ratner from the eighties says that two horocycle flows on hyperbolic surfaces of finite area are either the same up to algebraic change of coordinates, or they have no non-trivial joinings. Recently, Mohammadi and Oh…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Wenyu Pan

We study the dynamics of the geodesic and horocycle flows of the unit tangent bundle $(\hat M, T^1\mathcal{F})$ of a compact minimal lamination $(M,\mathcal F)$ by negatively curved surfaces. We give conditions under which the action of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-02-01 Matilde Martínez , Shigenori Matsumoto , Alberto Verjovsky

We investigate specific examples of locally-defined real vector-fields on strata of translation surfaces. Integrating SL(2,R)-loci of Veech surfaces along these vector-fields yield interesting new examples of horocyle-invariant ergodic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Lucien Clavier

We study ergodic theoretical properties of flows on circle bundles over translation surfaces that arise via prequantization, generalizing the theory of Heisenberg nilflows to base surfaces more general than tori; these flows are among the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Francisco Arana-Herrera , Jayadev Athreya , Giovanni Forni

In this work, we introduce a natural class of chaotic flows on non-compact manifolds, called H-flows, which includes geodesic flows on non-compact manifolds with pinched negative curvature. We show that, under the additional assumption,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Anna Florio , Barbara Schapira , Anne Vaugon

We begin with a basic exploration of the (point-set topological) notion of Hausdorff closed limits in the spacetime setting. Specifically, we show that this notion of limit is well suited to sequences of achronal sets, and use this to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-28 Gregory J. Galloway , Carlos Vega

In this article, we consider the weighted ergodic optimization problem Axiom A attractors of a $C^2$ flow on a compact smooth manifold. The main result obtained in this paper is that for a generic observable from function space $\mc…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Wen Huang , Zeng Lian , Xiao Ma , Leiye Xu , Yiwei Zhang

We provide a new proof that the horocycle flow preserving the Margulis measure on a variable negative curvature surface is standard. This was first proved by Ratner. The main purpose of this note is to provide a simplified case of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-10-19 Adam Kanigowski , Kurt Vinhage , Daren Wei

We prove a nonstandard central limit theorem and weak invariance principle, with superdiffusive normalisation $(t\log t)^{1/2}$, for geodesic flows on a class of nonpositively curved surfaces with flat cylinder. We also prove that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Yuri Lima , Carlos Matheus , Ian Melbourne

We provide a self-contained, accessible introduction to Ratner's Equidistribution Theorem in the special case of horocyclic flow on a complete hyperbolic surface of finite area. This equidistribution result was first obtained in the early…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-03-03 John H. Hubbard , Robyn L. Miller

This article discusses a relatively new geometric flow, called the hypersymplectic flow. In the first half of the article we explain the original motivating ideas for the flow, coming from both 4-dimensional symplectic topology and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-07 Joel Fine , Chengjian Yao