Ruelle operators and decay of correlations for contact Anosov flows

We prove strong spectral estimates for Ruelle transfer operators for arbitrary $C^2$ contact Anosov flows. As a consequence of this we obtain: (a) existence of a non-zero analytic continuation of the Ruelle zeta function with a pole at the entropy in a vertical strip containing the entropy in its interior; (b) a Prime Orbit Theorem with an exponentially small error; (c) exponential decay of correlations for Hölder continuous observables with respect to any Gibbs measure.     

Torsion and conformally Anosov flows in contact Riemannian geometry

We prove that on a compact (non Sasakian) contact metric 3-manifold with critical metric for the Chern-Hamilton functional, the characteristic vector field ξ is conformally Anosov and there exists a smooth curve in the contact distribution of conformally Anosov flows. As a consequence, we show that negativity of the ξ-sectional curvature is not a necessary condition for conformal Anosovicity of ξ (this completes a result of [4]). Moreover, we study contact metric 3-manifolds with constant ξ-sectional curvature and, in particular, correct a result of [13].     

The structure of branching in Anosov flows of 3-manifolds

In this article we study the topology of Anosov flows in 3-manifolds. Specifically we consider the lifts to the universal cover of the stable and unstable foliations and analyze the leaf spaces of these foliations. We completely determine the structure of the non Hausdorff points in these leaf spaces. There are many consequences: (1) when the leaf spaces are non Hausdorff, there are closed orbits in the manifold which are freely homotopic, (2) suspension Anosov flows are, up to topological conjugacy, the only Anosov flows without free homotopies between closed orbits, (3) when there are infinitely many stable leaves (in the universal cover) which are non separated from each other, then we produce a torus in the manifold which is transverse to the Anosov flow and therefore is incompressible, (4) we produce non Hausdorff examples in hyperbolic manifolds and derive important properties of the limit sets of the stable/unstable leaves in the universal cover. Received: March 13, 1997     

Lipschitz distributions and Anosov flows

We show that if a distribution is locally spanned by Lipschitz vector fields and is involutive a.e., then it is uniquely integrable giving rise to a Lipschitz foliation with leaves of class . As a consequence, we show that every codimension-one Anosov flow on a compact manifold of dimension such that the sum of its strong distributions is Lipschitz, admits a global cross section.

     

Geometric Anosov flows of dimension 5

We show that for a smooth Anosov flow on a closed five dimensional manifold, if it has C^∞ Anosov splitting and preserves a C^∞ pseudo-Riemannian metric, then up to a special time change and finite covers, it is C^∞ flow equivalent either to the suspension of a symplectic hyperbolic automorphism of $\text{T}{}^4$, or to the geodesic flow on a three dimensional hyperbolic manifold. To cite this article: Y. Fang, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 336 (2003).     

Transitive Anosov flows and pseudo-Anosov maps

ATRANSITIVEAnosov flow on a closed manifold Mis one with the qualitative behavior of a geodesic flow on a surface of negative curvature, that is global hyperbelocity and dense periodic set. A psedo-Anosov map is a homeomorphism of closed surface that has finitely many prescribed prong singlarities and is smooth and hyperbolic elsewhere: we refer to the Orsay Thurston Seminar for details [2]. We will show that Birkhoff's surfaces of section[1] can be used to established a close connection between these systems then M has dimension 3. This extends the srgery techniques of [4,5] to produce all the transitive Anove flows in dimension 3.     

Almost commensurability of 3-dimensional Anosov flows

Two flows are almost commensurable if, up to removing finitely many periodic orbits and taking finite coverings, they are topologically equivalent. We prove that all suspensions of automorphisms of the 2-dimensional torus and all geodesic flows on unit tangent bundles to hyperbolic 2-orbifolds are pairwise almost commensurable.     

Zeta-functions for expanding maps and Anosov flows

Given a real-analytic expanding endomorphism of a compact manifoldM, a meromorphic zeta function is defined on the complex-valued real-analytic functions onM. A zeta function for Anosov flows is shown to be meromorphic if the flow and its stable-unstable foliations are real-analytic.     

Anosov flows with gibbs measures are also Bernoullian

We consider a special flowS ^t over a shift in the space of sequences (X, μ) constructed using a continuousf with {fx380-1} We formulate a condition for μ such that theK-flowS ^t is aB-flow. A note on the paperGeodesic flows are Bernoullian by D. Ornstein and B. Weiss.     

On invariant volumes of codimension-one Anosov flows and the Verjovsky conjecture

We show that any topologically transitive codimension-one Anosov flow on a closed manifold is topologically equivalent to a smooth Anosov flow that preserves a smooth volume. By a classical theorem due to Verjovsky, any higher-dimensional codimension-one Anosov flow is topologically transitive. Recently, Simić showed that any higher-dimensional codimension-one Anosov flow that preserves a smooth volume is topologically equivalent to the suspension of an Anosov diffeomorphism. Therefore, our result gives a complete classification of codimension-one Anosov flows up to topological equivalence in higher dimensions.     

Regularity of the Anosov distributions of Euler-Lagrange deformations of geodesic flows

Let g be a negatively curved Riemannian metric of a closed C ^∞ manifold M of dimension at least three. Let L _λ be a C ^∞ one-parameter convex superlinear Lagrangian on TM such that L₀(v) = \frac12 g(v, v){L_0(v)= \frac{1}{2} g(v, v)} for any v ∈ TM. We denote by j^l{\varphi^\lambda} the restriction of the Euler-Lagrange flow of L _λ on the \frac12{\frac{1}{2}} -energy level. If λ is small enough then the flow j^l{\varphi^\lambda} is Anosov. In this paper we study the geometric consequences of different assumptions about the regularity of the Anosov distributions of j^l{\varphi^\lambda} . For example, in the case that the initial Riemannian metric g is real hyperbolic, we prove that for λ small, j^l{\varphi^\lambda} has C ³ weak stable and weak unstable distributions if and only if j^l{\varphi^\lambda} is C ^∞ orbit equivalent to the geodesic flow of g.     

Differentiability,rigidity and Godbillon-Vey classes for Anosov flows

Supported in part by grants from the NSF and the Sloan Foundation.     

On Reeb components of invariant foliations of projectively Anosov flows

We show that if a C² codimension one foliation on a three-dimensional manifold has a Reeb component and is invariant under a projectively Anosov flow, then it must be a Reeb foliation on S²×S¹.