With a Survey by Richard Sharp: Periodic Orbits of Hyperbolic Flows
First Statement of Responsibility
by Grigoriy A. Margulis.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Berlin, Heidelberg
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2004
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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(vii, 142 pages)
SERIES
Series Title
Springer monographs in mathematics.
CONTENTS NOTE
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G. Margulis: On Some Aspects of the Theory of Anosov Systems: 1. Some Preliminaries on Anosov Flows --; 2. Behaviour of Lebesgue Measures on Leaves of ~
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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In this book the seminal 1970 Moscow thesis of Grigoriy A. Margulis is published for the first time. Entitled "On Some Aspects of the Theory of Anosov Systems", it uses ergodic theoretic techniques to study the distribution of periodic orbits of Anosov flows. The thesis introduces the "Margulis measure" and uses it to obtain a precise asymptotic formula for counting periodic orbits. This has an immediate application to counting closed geodesics on negatively curved manifolds. The thesis also contains asymptotic formulas for the number of lattice points on universal coverings of compact manifolds of negative curvature. The thesis is complemented by a survey by Richard Sharp, discussing more recent developments in the theory of periodic orbits for hyperbolic flows, including the results obtained in the light of Dolgopyat's breakthroughs on bounding transfer operators and rates of mixing.