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Harmonic measures and the foliated geodesic flow for foliations with negatively curved leaves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2014

SÉBASTIEN ALVAREZ*
Affiliation:
Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne, CNRS-UMR 5584, Université de Bourgogne, 21078 Dijon Cedex, France email [email protected]

Abstract

In this paper we define a notion of Gibbs measure for the geodesic flow tangent to a foliation with negatively curved leaves and associated to a particular potential $H$. We prove that there is a canonical bijective correspondence between these measures and Garnett’s harmonic measures.

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Research Article
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© Cambridge University Press, 2014 

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