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Entropy in the cusp and phase transitions for geodesic flows

Dynamical Systems 2018-09-18 v2

Abstract

In this paper we study the geodesic flow for a particular class of Riemannian non-compact manifolds with variable pinched negative sectional curvature. For a sequence of invariant measures we are able to prove results relating the loss of mass and bounds on the measure entropies. We compute the entropy contribution of the cusps. We develop and study the corresponding thermodynamic formalism. We obtain certain regularity results for the pressure of a class of potentials. We prove that the pressure is real analytic until it undergoes a phase transition, after which it becomes constant. Our techniques are based on the one side on symbolic methods and Markov partitions and on the other on geometric techniques and approximation properties at level of groups.

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@article{arxiv.1511.03967,
  title  = {Entropy in the cusp and phase transitions for geodesic flows},
  author = {Godofredo Iommi and Felipe Riquelme and Anibal Velozo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.03967},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

34 pages, 4 figures. In this new version we have improved the organization of the paper and the clarity of some statements

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