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We prove that every non-degenerate Reeb flow on a closed contact manifold $M$ admitting a strong symplectic filling $W$ with vanishing first Chern class carries at least two geometrically distinct closed orbits provided that the positive…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Miguel Abreu , Jean Gutt , Jungsoo Kang , Leonardo Macarini

In this paper, we prove that if the geodesic flow of a complete manifold without conjugate points with sectional curvatures bounded below by $-c^2$ is of Anosov type, then the constant of contraction of the flow is $\geq e^{-c}$. Moreover,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Ítalo Dowell , Sergio Romaña

For any hyperbolic genus one 2-bridge knot in the 3-sphere, we show that the resulting manifold by $r$-surgery on the knot has left-orderable fundamental group if the slope $r$ lies in some range which depends on the knot.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Ryoto Hakamata , Masakazu Teragaito

We prove that flow of a generic geodesic on a flat surface with finite holonomy group is ergodic. We use this result to prove that flows of generic billiards on certain flat surfaces with boundary are also ergodic.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-06-07 Ísmail Sağlam

We study the ergodic properties of horospheres on rank 1 manifolds with non-positive curvature. We prove that the horospheres are equidistributed under the action of the geodesic flow towards the Bowen-Margulis measure, on a large class of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-10-06 Sergi Burniol Clotet

We prove a recent conjecture of Dragovic et al arXiv2504.20515 stating that the magnetic geodesic flow on the standard sphere $S^n\subset \mathbb R^{n+1}$ whose magnetic 2-form is the restriction of a constant 2-form from $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Alexey V. Bolsinov , Andrey Yu. Konyaev , Vladimir S. Matveev

We consider the class of partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms on a closed 3-manifold with quasi-isometric center. Under the non-wandering condition, we prove that the diffeomorphisms are accessible if there is no $su$-torus. As a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Ziqiang Feng

This paper gives a complete classification of the possible ergodic decompositions for certain open families of volume-preserving partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms. These families include systems with compact center leaves and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-03-10 Andy Hammerlindl

It is unknown whether an unknotting tunnel is always isotopic to a geodesic in a finite volume hyperbolic 3-manifold. In this paper, we address the generalization of this problem to hyperbolic 3-manifolds admitting tunnel systems. We show…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Stephan D. Burton , Jessica S. Purcell

An unknotting tunnel in a 3-manifold with boundary is a properly embedded arc, the complement of an open neighborhood of which is a handlebody. A geodesic with endpoints on the cusp boundary of a hyperbolic 3-manifold and perpendicular to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Colin Adams , Karin Knudson

We study the closure of horocycles on rank 1 nonpositively curved surfaces with finitely generated fundamental group. Each horocycle is closed or dense on a certain subset of the unit tangent bundle. In fact, we classify each half-horocycle…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-07-10 Sergi Burniol Clotet

In this article, we establish the Hopf-Tsuji-Sullivan dichotomy for geodesic flows on certain manifolds with no conjugate points: either the geodesic flow is conservative and ergodic, or it is completely dissipative and non-ergodic. We also…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Fei Liu , Xiaokai Liu , Fang Wang

We show that cusped finite-volume hyperbolic 3-manifolds contain infinitely many simple closed geodesics.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-10-28 Feihuang Xia

In this article we obtain a simple topological and dynamical systems condition which is necessary and sufficient for an arbitrary pseudo-Anosov flow in a closed, hyperbolic three manifold to be quasigeodesic. Quasigeodesic means that orbits…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-07-01 Sergio R Fenley

The main thrust of present note is a volume formula for hyperbolic surface bundle with the fundamental group G. The novelty consists in a purely algebraic approach to the above problem. Initially, we concentrate on the Baum-Connes morphism…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Igor Nikolaev

We prove Calegari's conjecture that every quasigeodesic flow on a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold has closed orbits.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-11-29 Steven Frankel

We prove topological transitivity for the Weil Petersson geodesic flow for two-dimensional moduli spaces of hyperbolic structures. Our proof follows a new approach that exploits the density of singular unit tangent vectors, the geometry of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-10-05 Mark Pollicott , Howard Weiss , Scott A. Wolpert

We study inverse mean curvature flow with free boundary supported on geodesic spheres in hyperbolic space. Starting from any convex hypersurface inside a geodesic ball with a free boundary, the flow converges to a totally geodesic disk in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-17 Xiaoxiang Chai

We prove that for closed surfaces $M$ with Riemannian metrics without conjugate points and genus $\geq 2$ the geodesic flow on the unit tangent bundle $T^1M$ has a unique measure of maximal entropy. Furthermore, this measure is fully…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Vaughn Climenhaga , Gerhard Knieper , Khadim War

We show that on any compact Riemann surface with variable negative curvature there exists a measure which is invariant and ergodic under the geodesic flow and whose projection to the base manifold is 2-dimensional and singular with respect…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Risto Hovila , Esa Järvenpää , Maarit Järvenpää , François Ledrappier