Expansive flows on Seifert manifolds and on torus bundles

We show that any expansive flow on a 3-manifold which is a Seifert fibration or a torus bundle overS ¹ is topologically equivalent to a transitive Anosov flow. This is achieved by analyzing the trace of the stable foliation (with singularities) of the flow on incompressible tori embedded in such a manifold.     

On a Morse conjecture for analytic flows on compact surfaces

The aim of this paper is to prove a Morse conjecture; in particular it is shown that a topologically transitive analytic flow on a compact surface is metrically transitive. We also build smooth topologically transitive flows on surfaces which are not metrically transitive.     

Smooth topologically transitive dynamic systems

The paper proves the existence of smooth topologically transitive dynamic systems-flows and cascades for any connected n-dimensional region (n3), and cascades for two-dimensional regions diffeomorphic to the unit circle.Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 4, No. 6, pp. 751–759, December, 1968.The author wishes to thank D. V. Anosov for his advice and his interest in this work.     

On the approximation of time one maps of Anosov flows by Axiom A diffeomorphisms

We prove that if 𝒻₁ is the time one map of a transitive and codimension one Anosov flow φ and it is C ¹-approximated by Axiom A diffeomorphisms satisfying a property called P, then the flow is topologically conjugated to the suspension of a codimension one Anosov diffeomorphism. A diffeomorphism 𝒻 satisfies property P if for every periodic point in M the number of periodic points in a fundamental domain of its central manifold is constant. Received: 15 March 2001     

Number of invariant measures with maximal entropy for translation in the space of sequences

An example is constructed of a topologically transitive dynamic system with positive entropy, having any assigned finite number of ergodic measures with respect to each of which the metric entropy is equal to the topological entropy.Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 291–302, March, 1971.The author expresses his gratitude to B. M. Gurevich for his valuable discussions of the work and D. V. Anosov for his comments on the work.     

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).     

ON THE TOPOLOGICALLY CONJUGATE CLASSES OF ANOSOV ENDOMORPHISMS ON TORI

This paper considers the following question: Given an Anosov endomorphism f on T~m, whether f is topologically conjugate to some hyperbolic total endomorphism? It is well known that the answer for Anosov diffeomorphisms and expanding endomorphisms is affirmative. Hwever for the remainder Anosov endomorphisms, a quite different answer is obtained in this paper, i. e., for generic Anosov endomorphisms, they are not topologically conjugate to any hyperbolic toral endomorphism.     

On sided branching in Anosov foliations

We study topologically transitive Anosov flows in 3-manifolds. We show that if one of the stable or unstable foliations in the universal cover does not have Hausdorff leaf space (branching occurs) then both have branching in the positive and negative directions. Research partially supported by NSF grants DMS-9201744 and DMS-9306059.     

Transitive partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms on 3-manifolds

The known examples of transitive partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms on 3-manifolds belong to 3 basic classes: perturbations of skew products over an Anosov map of T², perturbations of the time one map of a transitive Anosov flow, and certain derived from Anosov diffeomorphisms of the torus T³. In this work we characterize the two first types by a local hypothesis associated to one closed periodic curve.     

Pseudo-Anosov Flows and Incompressible Tori

We study incompressible tori in 3-manifolds supporting pseudo-Anosov flows and more generally ZZ subgroups of the fundamental group of such a manifold. If no element in this subgroup can be represented by a closed orbit of the pseudo-Anosov flow, we prove that the flow is topologically conjugate to a suspension of an Anosov diffeomorphism of the torus. In particular it is non singular and is an Anosov flow. It follows that either a pseudo-Anosov flow is topologically conjugate to a suspension Anosov flow, or any immersed incompressible torus can be realized as a free homotopy from a closed orbit of the flow to itself. The key tool is an analysis of group actions on non-Hausdorff trees, also known as R-order trees – we produce an invariant axis in the free action case. An application of these results is the following: suppose the manifold has an R-covered foliation transverse to a pseudo-Anosov flow. If the flow is not an R-covered Anosov flow, then it follows that the manifold is atoroidal.     

Robustly transitive actions of ℝ<Superscript>2</Superscript> on compact three manifolds

In this paper, we define robust transitivity for actions of ℝ² on closed connected orientable manifolds. We prove that if the ambient manifold is three dimensional and the dense orbit of a robustly transitive action is not planar, then the action is defined by an Anosov flow, i.e. its orbits coincide with the orbits of an Anosov flow.     

Boundaries of non-compact harmonic manifolds

In this paper we consider non-compact non-flat simply connected harmonic manifolds. In particular, we show that the Martin boundary and Busemann boundary coincide for such manifolds. For any finite volume quotient we show that (up to scaling) there is a unique Patterson–Sullivan measure and this measure coincides with the harmonic measure. As an application of these results we prove that the geodesic flow on a non-flat finite volume harmonic manifold without conjugate points is topologically transitive.     

The topology of group extensions of C systems

The paper is concerned with the topological and metric properties of group extensions of C systems. The basic theorem describes the topologically transitive component, the ergodic component, and the K component of a group extension of a C system. It is shown that each of these components is a group sub-bundle of a principal bundle in which the group extension acts. The frame flow on a manifold of negative curvature is seen to be a special case of a group of extension of a C system. It is shown that the space of frames on a compact three-dimensional manifold with negative curvature does not have any group sub-bundles, so that the frame flow on manifolds of this class is topologically transitive, ergodic, and a K system.     

$\mathbb{Z}^{k}$-作用一维子系统的Lipschitz跟踪性

本文主要研究了$\mathbb{Z}^{k}$-作用一维子系统的跟踪性质. 文中运用两种等价的方式引入了$\mathbb{Z}^{k}$-作用一维子系统的伪轨以及跟踪性的概念. 对于一个闭黎曼流形上的光滑$\mathbb{Z}^{k}$-作用$T$, 我们通过诱导的非自治动力系统提出了Anosov方向的概念. 借助Bowen几何的方法, 我们证明了$T$沿着任意Anosov方向具有Lipschitz跟踪性.     

The orbit shift topological stability of Anosov maps

It is shown that Anosov maps are orbit shift topologically stable.     

The asymptotic average-shadowing property and transitivity for flows

The asymptotic average-shadowing property is introduced for flows and the relationships between this property and transitivity for flows are investigated. It is shown that a flow on a compact metric space is chain transitive if it has positively (or negatively) asymptotic average-shadowing property and a positively (resp. negatively) Lyapunov stable flow is positively (resp. negatively) topologically transitive provided it has positively (resp. negatively) asymptotic average-shadowing property. Furthermore, two conditions for which a flow is a minimal flow are obtained.     

Transitivity and Dense Periodicity for Graph Maps

In 1984, Blokh proved [A. M. Blockh, On transitive mappings of one-dimensional branched manifolds, Differential-Difference Equations and Problems of Mathematical physics (Russian), Akad. Nauk Ukrain. SSR Inst. Mat., Kiev, 131, pp. 3–9, 1984] that any topologically transitive continuous map from a graph into itself which has periodic points has a dense set of periodic points and has positive topological entropy (in this proof a crucial role is played by the specification property, which implies these two statements). Also, he characterized the topologically transitive continuous graph maps without periodic points. Unfortunately, this clever paper is only available in Russian (except for a translation to English of the statements of the theorems without proofs—see [A. M. Blockh, The connection between entropy and transitivity for one-dimensional mappings, Uspekhi Mat. Nauk, 42(5(257)) (1987), pp. 209–210]).     

Thermodynamic formalism for countable to one Markov systems

For countable to one transitive Markov systems we establish thermodynamic formalism for non-Hölder potentials in nonhyperbolic situations. We present a new method for the construction of conformal measures that satisfy the weak Gibbs property for potentials of weak bounded variation and show the existence of equilibrium states equivalent to the weak Gibbs measures. We see that certain periodic orbits cause a phase transition, non-Gibbsianness and force the decay of correlations to be slow. We apply our results to higher-dimensional maps with indifferent periodic points.

     

On Sinai–Bowen–Ruelle Measures on Horocycles of 3-D Anosov Flows

Let ^t be a topologically mixing Anosov flow on a 3-D compact manifold M. Every unstable fiber (horocycle) of such a flow is dense in M. Sinai proved in 1992 that the one-dimensional SBR measures on long segments of unstable fibers converge uniformly to the SBR measure of the flow. We establish an explicit bound on the rate of convergence in terms of integrals of Hölder continuous functions on M.     

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.