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Time-like geodesic flows on Lorentz manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2008

Gérard G. Emch  and
Sungpyo Hong
Gérard G. Emch
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA;
Sungpyo Hong
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
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Abstract

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An extension from Riemann to Lorentz manifolds is proved for Anosov's theorem on the hyperbolicity (or exponential sensitivity to initial conditions) of the geodesic flow.

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Research Article
Information
Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , June 1987 , pp. 175 - 192
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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