Geometrical compactifications of geodesic flows and path structures

2021/12/06 by Martin Mion-Mouton, Mion-Mouton, Martin
Mathematics · #Differential Geometry (math.DG) #Dynamical Systems (math.DS) #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows #Geometric Topology (math.GT) #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2112.02900

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Abstract

In this paper, we construct a geometrical compactification of the geodesic flow of non-compact complete hyperbolic surfaces Σ without cusps having finitely generated fundamental group. We study the dynamical properties of the compactified flow, for which we show the existence of attractive circles at infinity. The geometric structure of T¹Σ for which this compactification is realized is the pair of one-dimensional distributions tangent to the stable and unstable horocyles of T¹Σ. This is a Kleinian path structure, that is a quotient of an open subset of the flag space by a discrete subgroup Γ of PGL₃(ℝ). Our study relies on a detailed description of the dynamics of PGL₃(ℝ) on the flag space, and on the construction of an explicit fundamental domain for the action of Γ on its maximal open subset of discontinuity in the flag space.

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