Geodesic Flows
Gabriel P. Paternain(Author)
Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH
Published in September 1999
Book
Hardback
168 pages
978-3-7643-4144-2 (ISBN)
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Description
This work begins with an introduction to the geodesic flow of a complete Riemannian manifold, emphasizing its sympletic properties and culminating with various applications such as the non-existence of continuous invariant Lagrangian sub-bundles for manifolds with conjugate points. Subsequent chapters develop the relationship between the exponential growth rate of the average number of geodesic arcs between two points.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel
Switzerland
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
9 schw.-w. Abb.
Dimensions
Height: 24 cm
Width: 16.3 cm
Weight
420 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7643-4144-2 (9783764341442)
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Content
Introduction to geodesic flows: geodesic flow of a complete Riemannian manifold; symplectic and contact manifolds; the geometry of the tangent bundle; the cotangent bundle T*M; Jacobi fields and the differential of the geodesic flow; the asymptotic cycle and the stable norm. The geodesic flow acting on Lagrangian subspaces: twist properties; Riccati equations; the Grassmannian bundle of Lagrangian subspaces; Maslov index; the geodesic flow acting at the level of Lagrangian subspaces; continuous invariant Lagrangian subbundles in SM; Birkhoff's second theorem for geodesic flows. Geodesic arcs, counting functions and topological entropy: the counting functions; entropies and Yomdin's theorem; geodesic arcs and topological entropy; Manning's inequality; a uniform version of Yomdin's theorem. Mane's formula for geodesic flows and convex billiards: time shifts that avoid the vertical; Mane's formula for geodesic flows; manifolds without conjugate points; entropy for positive curvature; mane's formula for convex billiards; further results and problems on the subject. Topological entropy and loop space homology: rationally elliptic and rationally hyperbolic manifolds; Morse theory of the loop space; topological conditions that ensure positive entropy; entropies of manifolds; further results and problems on the subject.