scholarly journals Scattering rigidity with trapped geodesics

2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 826-836 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTOPHER CROKE

AbstractWe prove that the flat product metric on ${D}^{n} \times {S}^{1} $ is scattering rigid where ${D}^{n} $ is the unit ball in ${ \mathbb{R} }^{n} $ and $n\geq 2$. The scattering data (loosely speaking) of a Riemannian manifold with boundary is the map $S: {U}^{+ } \partial M\rightarrow {U}^{- } \partial M$ from unit vectors $V$ at the boundary that point inward to unit vectors at the boundary that point outwards. The map (where defined) takes $V$ to ${ \gamma }_{V}^{\prime } ({T}_{0} )$ where ${\gamma }_{V} $ is the unit speed geodesic determined by $V$ and ${T}_{0} $ is the first positive value of $t$ (when it exists) such that ${\gamma }_{V} (t)$ again lies in the boundary. We show that any other Riemannian manifold $(M, \partial M, g)$ with boundary $\partial M$ isometric to $\partial ({D}^{n} \times {S}^{1} )$ and with the same scattering data must be isometric to ${D}^{n} \times {S}^{1} $. This is the first scattering rigidity result for a manifold that has a trapped geodesic. The main issue is to show that the unit vectors tangent to trapped geodesics in $(M, \partial M, g)$ have measure zero in the unit tangent bundle.

2003 ◽  
Vol 133 (6) ◽  
pp. 1209-1229 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Berndt ◽  
E. Boeckx ◽  
P. T. Nagy ◽  
L. Vanhecke

A geodesic γ on the unit tangent sphere bundle T1M of a Riemannian manifold (M, g), equipped with the Sasaki metric gS, can be considered as a curve x on M together with a unit vector field V along it. We study the curves x. In particular, we investigate for which manifolds (M, g) all these curves have constant first curvature κ1 or have vanishing curvature κi for some i = 1, 2 or 3.


1991 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 653-686 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renato Feres

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.


1997 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 211-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
RAFAEL O. RUGGIERO

Let $M$ be a compact Riemannian manifold with no conjugate points such that its geodesic flow is expansive. We show that there exists a local product structure in the unit tangent bundle of the manifold which is invariant under the geodesic flow. In particular, we have that the set of closed geodesics is dense and that the flow is topologically transitive.


1988 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Toshiaki Adachi

Let M be a compact Riemannian manifold whose geodesic flow φi : UM→UM on the unit tangent bundle is of Anosov type. In this paper we count the number of φi-closed orbits and study the distribution of prime closed geodesies in a given homology class in H1(M, Z). Here a prime closed geodesic means an (oriented) image of a φi-closed orbit by the projection p : UM → M.


1982 ◽  
Vol 2 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 513-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Sarnak

AbstractLet M be a compact Riemannian manifold of (variable) negative curvature. Let h be the topological entropy and hμ the measure entropy for the geodesic flow on the unit tangent bundle to M. Estimates for h and hμ in terms of the ‘geometry’ of M are derived. Connections with and applications to other geometric questions are discussed.


Filomat ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 2543-2554
Author(s):  
E. Peyghan ◽  
F. Firuzi ◽  
U.C. De

Starting from the g-natural Riemannian metric G on the tangent bundle TM of a Riemannian manifold (M,g), we construct a family of the Golden Riemannian structures ? on the tangent bundle (TM,G). Then we investigate the integrability of such Golden Riemannian structures on the tangent bundle TM and show that there is a direct correlation between the locally decomposable property of (TM,?,G) and the locally flatness of manifold (M,g).


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
THOMAS METTLER ◽  
GABRIEL P. PATERNAIN

Abstract We associate a flow $\phi $ with a solution of the vortex equations on a closed oriented Riemannian 2-manifold $(M,g)$ of negative Euler characteristic and investigate its properties. We show that $\phi $ always admits a dominated splitting and identify special cases in which $\phi $ is Anosov. In particular, starting from holomorphic differentials of fractional degree, we produce novel examples of Anosov flows on suitable roots of the unit tangent bundle of $(M,g)$ .


2021 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Fethi Latti ◽  
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Hichem Elhendi ◽  
Lakehal Belarbi

In the present paper, we introduce a new class of natural metrics on the tangent bundle $TM$ of the Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ denoted by $G^{f,h}$ which is named a twisted Sasakian metric. A necessary and sufficient conditions under which a vector field is harmonic with respect to the twisted Sasakian metric are established. Some examples of harmonic vector fields are presented as well.


2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 1194-1216
Author(s):  
CHRIS CONNELL ◽  
THANG NGUYEN ◽  
RALF SPATZIER

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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