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In 2004, Manning showed that the topological entropy of the geodesic flow of a closed surface of non-constant negative curvature is strictly decreasing along the normalized Ricci flow, and he asked if an analogous result holds in higher…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Karen Butt , Alena Erchenko , Tristan Humbert

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 $(\mathbb T^2,g)$ be a Riemannian two-torus and let $\sigma$ be an oscillating $2$-form on $\mathbb T^2$. We show that for almost every small positive number $k$ the magnetic flow of the pair $(g,\sigma)$ has infinitely many periodic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Luca Asselle , Gabriele Benedetti

We show the flexibility of the metric entropy and obtain additional restrictions on the topological entropy of geodesic flow on closed surfaces of negative Euler characteristic with smooth non-positively curved Riemannian metrics with fixed…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-08-07 Thomas Barthelmé , Alena Erchenko

We study the evolution of turbulent magnetic fields from a topological point of view, invoking commonplace mathematical tools from general topology and dynamical systems theory which connect magnetic field evolution to time reversal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-12 Amir Jafari , Ethan Vishniac

We prove that for a weakly exact magnetic system on a closed connected Riemannian manifold, almost all energy levels contain a closed orbit. More precisely, we prove the following stronger statements. Let $(M,g)$ denote a closed connected…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Will J. Merry

We establish that $C^\infty$ three-dimensional flows with positive topological entropy admit only finitely many ergodic measures of maximal entropy, even when singularities (zero-velocity points) are present. Furthermore, every ergodic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Ming Li , Xingzhong Liu

We study stability properties of the topological entropy of Reeb flows on contact 3-manifolds with respect to the C^0-distance on the space of contact forms. Our main results show that a C^\infty-generic contact form on a closed co-oriented…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Marcelo R. R. Alves , Lucas Dahinden , Matthias Meiwes , Abror Pirnapasov

Topological entropy is not lower semi-continous: small perturbation of the dynamical system can lead to a collapse of entropy. In this note we show that for some special classes of dynamical systems (geodesic flows, Reeb flows, positive…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-11 Lucas Dahinden

We show that for the standard map family, for all values of the parameter, except one, the mapping has positive topological entropy. The main tool is the following result. Let $S$ be a compact connected orientable surface and $f:S…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Fernando Oliveira

We study Reeb dynamics on starshaped hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^4$ arising as smoothings of starshaped polytopes. Using the $C^0$--stability of positive topological entropy for Reeb flows in dimension three from our joint work with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Marcelo R. R. Alves , Matthias Meiwes

We use entropy theory as a new tool to study sectional hyperbolic flows in any dimension. We show that for $C^1$ flows, every sectional hyperbolic set $\Lambda$ is entropy expansive, and the topological entropy varies continuously with the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Maria Jose Pacifico , Fan Yang , Jiagang Yang

We prove that for a large and important class of $C^1$ twist maps of the torus periodic and quasi-periodic orbits of a new type exist, provided that there are no rotational invariant circles (R.I.C's). These orbits have a non-zero…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-11-07 S Addas Zanata

We prove for $C^\infty$ non-singular flows on three-dimensional compact manifolds with positive entropy, there are at most finitely many ergodic measures of maximal entropy. This result extends the notable work of Buzzi-Crovisier-Sarig…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Yuntao Zang

Steady fluid flows have very special topology. In this paper we describe necessary and sufficient conditions on the vorticity function of a 2D ideal flow on a surface with or without boundary, for which there exists a steady flow among…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-19 Anton Izosimov , Boris Khesin

In this note we prove that Moebius orthogonality does not hold for subshifts of finite type with positive topological entropy. This, in particular, shows that all $C^{1+\alpha}$ surface diffeomorphisms with positive entropy correlate with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Davit Karagulyan

Chicone et al [CMP (1995)] have shown that, kinematic fast dynamos in diffusive media, could exist only on a closed, 2D Riemannian manifold of constant negative curvature. This report, shows that their result cannot be extended to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-06-17 Garcia de Andrade

In this work we study the problem of positiveness of topological entropy for flows using pointwise dynamics. We show that the existence of a non-periodic nonwandering point of an expansive and non-singular flow with shadowing is a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-07-05 Elias Rego , Alexander Arbieto

Let $f:M\rightarrow M$ be a $C^1$ diffeomorphism with a dominated splitting on a compact Riemanian manifold $M$ without boundary. We state and prove several sufficient conditions for the topological entropy of $f$ to be positive. The…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-06-08 Eleonora Catsigeras , Xueting Tian

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