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Every flat surface is Birkhoff and Oseledets generic in almost every direction

Dynamical Systems 2015-03-05 v4 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We prove that the Birkhoff pointwise ergodic theorem and the Oseledets multiplicative ergodic theorem hold for every flat surface in almost every direction. The proofs rely on the strong law of large numbers, and on recent rigidity results for the action of the upper triangular subgroup of SL(2,R) on the moduli space of flat surfaces. Most of the results also use a theorem about continuity of splittings of the Kontsevich-Zorich cocycle recently proved by S. Filip.

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@article{arxiv.1305.1104,
  title  = {Every flat surface is Birkhoff and Oseledets generic in almost every direction},
  author = {Jon Chaika and Alex Eskin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.1104},
  year   = {2015}
}

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23 pages

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