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An example of a real-analytic metric on a compact manifold whose geodesic flow is Liouville integrable by $C^\infty$ functions and has positive topological entropy is constructed.

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Let $Q$ be a compact, connected $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold, and assume that the geodesic flow is toric integrable. If $n \neq 3$ is odd, or if $\pi_1(Q)$ is infinite, we show that the cosphere bundle of $Q$ is equivariantly…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Christopher R. Lee , Susan Tolman

We study the geodesic flow on the cotangent bundle of a Friedman-Robertson-Walker spacetime (M, g). On this bundle, the HamiltonJacobi equation is completely separable and this separability leads us to construct four linearly independent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-27 Francisco Astorga , J. Felix Salazar , Thomas Zannias

We present a geometric interpretation of integrability of geodesic flow by quadratic integrals in terms of the web theory and construct integrable billiards on surfaces admitting such integrals.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Sergey I. Agafonov

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

Let $G/K$ be an orbit of the adjoint representation of a compact connected Lie group $G$, $\sigma$ be an involutive automorphism of $G$ and $\tilde G$ be the Lie group of fixed points of $\sigma$. We find a sufficient condition for the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Ihor V. Mykytyuk

Two Riemannian manifolds are said to have $C^k$-conjugate geodesic flows if there exist an $C^k$ diffeomorphism between their unit tangent bundles which intertwines the geodesic flows. We obtain a number of rigidity results for the geodesic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Carolyn Gordon , Yiping Mao

The article surveys inverse problems related to the twisted geodesic flows on Riemannian manifolds with boundary, focusing on the generalized ray transforms, tensor tomography, and rigidity problems. The twisted geodesic flow generalizes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Shubham R. Jathar , Jesse Railo

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

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

This paper is devoted to searching for Riemannian metrics on 2-surfaces whose geodesic flows admit a rational in momenta first integral with a linear numerator and denominator. The explicit examples of metrics and such integrals are…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-10-27 Sergei Agapov , Vladislav Shubin

We prove that a $C^2$-generic Riemannian metric on a closed surface has either an elliptic closed geodesic or an Anosov geodesic flow. As a consequence, we prove the $C^2$-stability conjecture for Riemannian geodesic flows of closed…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-05-17 Gonzalo Contreras , Marco Mazzucchelli

We analyse the geometry of the rubber-rolling distribution on the special orthogonal group and show that almost all the normal geodesics of any right-invariant sub-Riemannian metric defined on this distribution are completely integrable.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Alejandro Bravo-Doddoli , Philip Arathoon , Anthony M. Bloch

In this paper we study the geodesic flow on nilmanifolds equipped with a left-invariant metric. We write the underlying definitions and find general formulas for the Poisson involution. As an example we develop the Heisenberg Lie group…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Alejandro Kocsard , Gabriela P. Ovando , Silvio Reggiani

We prove that the geodesic flow on the unit tangent bundle to every hyperbolic 2-orbifold that is a sphere with 3 or 4 singular points admits explicit genus one Birkhoff sections, and we determine the associated first return maps.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-08-05 Pierre Dehornoy

In this paper we show that the geodesic flow of a Finsler metric is Anosov if and only if there exists a $C^2$ open neighborhood of Finsler metrics all of whose closed geodesics are hyperbolic. For surfaces this result holds also for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-11 Gerhard Knieper , Benjamin H. Schulz

We study totally geodesic codimension 1 smooth foliations on Lorentzian manifold. We are in particular interested by the relations between riemannian flows and geodesic foliations. We prove that, up to a 2-cover, any Seifert bundle admit…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pierre Mounoud

Uniform hyperbolicity is a strong chaotic property which holds, in particular, for Sinai billiards. In this paper, we consider the case of a nonflat billiard, that is, a Riemannian manifold with boundary. Each trajectory follows the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-26 Mickaël Kourganoff

We study the integrability of the conformal geodesic flow (also known as the conformal circle flow) on the $SO(3)$--invariant gravitational instantons. On a hyper--K\"ahler four--manifold the conformal geodesic equations reduce to geodesic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Maciej Dunajski , Paul Tod

We characterize geodesic flows, admitting two commuting quadratic integrals with common principal directions, in terms of the geodesic 4-webs such that the tangents to the web leaves are common zero directions of the integrals. We prove…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Sergey I. Agafonov