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Geodesic flows on manifolds of negative curvature with smooth horospheric foliations†

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2008

Renato Feres
Renato Feres
Affiliation:
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, 1000 Centennial Drive, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA and Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
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Abstract

We 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.

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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , December 1991 , pp. 653 - 686
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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