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We adapt to $C^r$ Anosov flows on compact manifolds a construction for $C^r$ discrete-time hyperbolic dynamics ($r>1$), obtaining anisotropic Banach or Hilbert spaces on which the resolvent of the generator of weighted transfer operators…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Alexander Adam , Viviane Baladi

We prove several results concerning the existence of surfaces of section for the geodesic flows of closed orientable Riemannian surfaces. The surfaces of section $\Sigma$ that we construct are either Birkhoff sections, meaning that they…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Gonzalo Contreras , Gerhard Knieper , Marco Mazzucchelli , Benjamin H. Schulz

This paper is an exposition of the major results of P. Eberlein's paper, "When is a geodesic flow of Anosov type? I," in the special case when the manifold $M$ is a surface. We follow Eberlein's coverage closely, adding details when…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Hao-Tong Yan

We prove a result allowing to build (transitive or non-transitive) Anosov flows on 3-manifolds by gluing together filtrating neighborhoods of hyperbolic sets. We give several applications; for example: 1. we build a 3-manifold supporting…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-06-14 François Béguin , Bin Yu , Christian Bonatti

Starting with a pseudo-Anosov flow $\varphi$ on a closed hyperbolic $3$-manifold $M$ and an embedded surface $S \subset M$ that is (almost) transverse to $\varphi$, we relate the hyperbolic geometry of $M$ (e.g. volume, circumference, short…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Junzhi Huang , Samuel J. Taylor

We study (topological) pseudo-Anosov flows from the perspective of the associated group actions on their orbit spaces and boundary at infinity. We extend the definition of Anosov-like action from [BFM22] from the transitive to the general…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Thomas Barthelmé , Christian Bonatti , Kathryn Mann

A long-standing conjecture in Hamiltonian Dynamics states that the Reeb flow of any convex hypersurface in $\mathbb{R}^{2n}$ carries an elliptic closed orbit. Two important contributions toward its proof were given by Ekeland in 1986 and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Miguel Abreu , Leonardo Macarini

We survey some results on the existence (and non-existence) of periodic Reeb orbits on contact manifolds, both in the open and closed case. We place these statements in the context of Finsler geometry by including a proof of the folklore…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Max Dörner , Hansjörg Geiges , Kai Zehmisch

This article considers inverse problems on closed Riemannian surfaces whose geodesic flow is Anosov. We prove spectral rigidity for any Anosov surface and injectivity of the geodesic ray transform on solenoidal 2-tensors. We also establish…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-29 Gabriel P. Paternain , Mikko Salo , Gunther Uhlmann

We construct non-algebraic Anosov flows in dimension $3+2n$, $n\geq 2$, by suspending the action of the fundamental group of a finite cover of the Bonatti-Langevin flow.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Danyu Zhang

In this article, we study the dynamics of geodesic flows on Riemannian (not necessarily compact) manifolds with no conjugate points. We prove the Anosov Closing Lemma, the local product structure, and the transitivity of the geodesic flows…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Fei Liu , Xiaokai Liu , Fang Wang

Building upon the work of Mitsumatsu and Hozoori, we establish a complete homotopy correspondence between three-dimensional Anosov flows and certain pairs of contact forms that we call Anosov Liouville pairs. We show a similar…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Thomas Massoni

We construct a mean curvature flow with surgery for submanifolds of arbitrary codimension. The theory applies to closed submanifolds satisfying a natural quadratic pinching condition, which serves as the high-codimension analogue of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Stephen Lynch , Huy The Nguyen

In this text we (re)-tell the theory of pseudo-Anosov flows on 3-manifolds with the orbit space as the central character; via a streamlined framework called {\em Anosov-like group actions}. This brings a simplified and unified perspective,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Thomas Barthelmé , Kathryn Mann

In this paper, we introduce a new method to establish existence of geometric flows with surgery. In contrast to all prior constructions of flows with surgery in the literature our new approach does not require any a priori estimates in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Robert Haslhofer

We prove that the geodesic flow on a locally CAT(-1) metric space which is compact, or more generally convex cocompact with non-elementary fundamental group, can be coded by a suspension flow over an irreducible shift of finite type with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-12-02 David Constantine , Jean-François Lafont , Daniel J. Thompson

We introduce a notion of abelian cohomology in the context of smooth flows. This is an equivalence relation which is weaker than the standard cohomology equivalence relation for flows. We develop Livshits theory for abelian cohomology over…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Andrey Gogolev , Federico Rodriguez Hertz

Every pseudo-Anosov flow $\phi$ in a closed $3$-manifold $M$ gives rise to an action of $\pi_1(M)$ on a circle $S^{1}_{\infty}(\phi)$ from infinity \cite{Fen12}, with a pair of invariant \emph{almost} laminations. From certain actions on…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Hyungryul Baik , Chenxi Wu , Bojun Zhao

In this paper, we prove that for any flow $\Psi$ obtained by a Dehn-Fried surgery on an expansive (or equivalently topological pseudo-Anosov) flow $\Phi$ in dimension 3, $\Psi$ is expansive if and only if its stable and unstable foliations…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Ioannis Iakovoglou

We give some simple conditions under which a group acting on a bifoliated plane comes from the induced action of a pseudo-Anosov flow on its orbit space. An application of the strategy is a less technical proof of a result of Barbot that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Thomas Barthelmé , Sergio Fenley , Kathryn Mann