Some Properties of Anosov Flows

1972 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 1114-1121
Author(s):  
W. Byers
Keyword(s):  
Sectional Curvature ◽  
Negative Curvature ◽  
Compact Manifolds ◽  
Geodesic Flows ◽  
Fundamental Groups ◽  
Important Class ◽  
Anosov Flows ◽  
Tangent Bundles ◽  
Negative Sectional Curvature

Anosov flows are a generalization of geodesic flows on the unit tangent bundles of compact manifolds of negative sectional curvature. They were introduced and are dealt with at length by Anosov in [2]. Moreover they form an important class of examples of flows satisfying Smale's axioms A and B (see [15]). In that paper Smale poses the problem of determining which manifolds admit Anosov flows. In this paper we obtain information about the fundamental groups of such manifolds. These generalize results which have been obtained for the fundamental groups of manifolds of negative curvature (see Preissmann [13], Byers [6]).

scholarly journals Geodesic flows on manifolds of negative curvature with smooth horospheric foliations

1991 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 653-686 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renato Feres
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Sectional Curvature ◽  
Tangent Bundle ◽  
Geodesic Flow ◽  
Negative Curvature ◽  
Geodesic Flows ◽  
Constant Negative Curvature ◽  
Unit Tangent Bundle ◽  
Tangent Bundles ◽  
Negative Sectional Curvature

AbstractWe improve and extend a result due to M. Kanai about rigidity of geodesic flows on closed Riemannian manifolds of negative curvature whose stable or unstable horospheric foliation is smooth. More precisely, the main results proved here are: (1) Let M be a closed C∞ Riemannian manifold of negative sectional curvature. Assume the stable or unstable foliation of the geodesic flow φt: V → V on the unit tangent bundle V of M is C∞. Assume, moreover, that either (a) the sectional curvature of M satisfies −4 < K ≤ −1 or (b) the dimension of M is odd. Then the geodesic flow of M is C∞-isomorphic (i.e., conjugate under a C∞ diffeomorphism between the unit tangent bundles) to the geodesic flow on a closed Riemannian manifold of constant negative curvature. (2) For M as above, assume instead of (a) or (b) that dim M ≡ 2(mod 4). Then either the above conclusion holds or φ1, is C∞-isomorphic to the flow , on the quotient Γ\, where Γ is a subgroup of a real Lie group ⊂ Diffeo () with Lie algebra is the geodesic flow on the unit tangent bundle of the complex hyperbolic space ℂHm, m = ½ dim M.

scholarly journals Non-Negative Curvature, Elliptic Genus and Unbounded Pontryagin Numbers

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 449-456
Author(s):  
Martin Herrmann ◽  
Nicolas Weisskopf
Keyword(s):  
Sectional Curvature ◽  
Negative Curvature ◽  
Elliptic Genus ◽  
Negatively Curved ◽  
Spin Manifolds ◽  
Simply Connected ◽  
Negative Sectional Curvature

AbstractWe discuss the cobordism type of spin manifolds with non-negative sectional curvature. We show that in each dimension 4k⩾ 12, there are infinitely many cobordism types of simply connected and non-negatively curved spin manifolds. Moreover, we raise and analyse a question about possible cobordism obstructions to non-negative curvature.

scholarly journals Hölder Compactification for Some Manifolds with Pinched Negative Curvature Near Infinity

2008 ◽  
Vol 60 (6) ◽  
pp. 1201-1218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Bahuaud ◽  
Tracey Marsh
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Sectional Curvature ◽  
Negative Curvature ◽  
Exponential Map ◽  
Noncompact Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Compact Submanifold ◽  
Curvature Pinching ◽  
Negative Sectional Curvature

AbstractWe consider a complete noncompact Riemannian manifold M and give conditions on a compact submanifold K ⊂ M so that the outward normal exponential map off the boundary of K is a diffeomorphism onto M\K. We use this to compactify M and show that pinched negative sectional curvature outside K implies M has a compactification with a well-defined Hölder structure independent of K. The Hölder constant depends on the ratio of the curvature pinching. This extends and generalizes a 1985 result of Anderson and Schoen.

scholarly journals Geodesic flows of negatively curved manifolds with smooth stable and unstable foliations

1988 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masahiko Kanai
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Sectional Curvature ◽  
Riemannian Manifolds ◽  
Geodesic Flow ◽  
Negative Curvature ◽  
Geodesic Flows ◽  
Constant Negative Curvature ◽  
Curved Manifolds ◽  
Negatively Curved ◽  
Closed Riemannian Manifold

AbstractWe are concerned with closed C∞ riemannian manifolds of negative curvature whose geodesic flows have C∞ stable and unstable foliations. In particular, we show that the geodesic flow of such a manifold is isomorphic to that of a certain closed riemannian manifold of constant negative curvature if the dimension of the manifold is greater than two and if the sectional curvature lies between − and −1 strictly.

scholarly journals Index theorems on manifolds with straight ends

2012 ◽  
Vol 148 (6) ◽  
pp. 1897-1968 ◽  
Author(s):  
Werner Ballmann ◽  
Jochen Brüning ◽  
Gilles Carron
Keyword(s):  
Sectional Curvature ◽  
Finite Volume ◽  
Riemannian Manifolds ◽  
Dirac Operators ◽  
Important Class ◽  
Index Theorems ◽  
Complete Riemannian Manifolds ◽  
Index Formulas ◽  
Negative Sectional Curvature

AbstractWe study Fredholm properties and index formulas for Dirac operators over complete Riemannian manifolds with straight ends. An important class of examples of such manifolds are complete Riemannian manifolds with pinched negative sectional curvature and finite volume.

scholarly journals On the growth of fundamental groups of nonpositive curvature manifolds

1996 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 483-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Hu Yang
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Fundamental Group ◽  
Sectional Curvature ◽  
Exponential Growth ◽  
Compact Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Nonpositive Curvature ◽  
Fundamental Groups ◽  
Positive Sectional Curvature ◽  
Classic Result ◽  
Negative Sectional Curvature

Milnor's classic result that the fundamental group of a compact Riemannian manifold of negative sectional curvature has exponential growth is generalised to the case of negative Ricci curvature and non-positive sectional curvature.

scholarly journals Markov families for Anosov flows with an involutive action

1986 ◽  
Vol 104 ◽  
pp. 55-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshiaki Adachi
Keyword(s):  
Dynamical Systems ◽  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Periodic Orbits ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Negative Curvature ◽  
Finite Family ◽  
Geodesic Flows ◽  
Anosov Flows

The aim of this note is to construct “involutive” Markov families for geodesic flows of negative curvature. Roughly speaking, a Markov family for a flow is a finite family of local cross-sections to the flow with fine boundary conditions. They are basic tools in the study of dynamical systems. In 1973, R. Bowen [5] constructed Markov families for Axiom A flows. Using these families, he reduced the problem of counting periodic orbits of an Axiom A flow to the case of hyperbolic symbolic flows.

scholarly journals Flots d'Anosov sur les 3-variétés fibrées en cercles

1984 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Etienne Ghys
Keyword(s):  
Geodesic Flow ◽  
Negative Curvature ◽  
Hyperbolic Manifold ◽  
Geodesic Flows ◽  
Finite Covering ◽  
Constant Negative Curvature ◽  
Circle Bundles ◽  
Anosov Flows

AbstractWe consider Anosov flows on closed 3-manifolds which are circle bundles. Our main result is that, up to a finite covering, these flows are topologically equivalent to the geodesic flow of a suface of constant negative curvature. The same method shows that, if M is a closed hyperbolic manifold of any dimension, all the geodesic flows which correspond to different metrics on M and which are of Anosov type are topologically equivalent.

scholarly journals Hyperbolic rank rigidity for manifolds of -pinched negative curvature

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 1194-1216
Author(s):  
CHRIS CONNELL ◽  
THANG NGUYEN ◽  
RALF SPATZIER
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Symmetric Space ◽  
Sectional Curvature ◽  
Negative Curvature ◽  
Jacobi Field ◽  
Rigidity Result ◽  
Locally Symmetric Space ◽  
Rank One ◽  
Sectional Curvatures

A Riemannian manifold $M$ has higher hyperbolic rank if every geodesic has a perpendicular Jacobi field making sectional curvature $-1$ with the geodesic. If, in addition, the sectional curvatures of $M$ lie in the interval $[-1,-\frac{1}{4}]$ and $M$ is closed, we show that $M$ is a locally symmetric space of rank one. This partially extends work by Constantine using completely different methods. It is also a partial counterpart to Hamenstädt’s hyperbolic rank rigidity result for sectional curvatures $\leq -1$, and complements well-known results on Euclidean and spherical rank rigidity.

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