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May, 2002 Genericity of Geodesic Flows with Positive Topological Entropy on S2
Gonzalo Contreras-Barandiarán, Gabriel P. Paternain
J. Differential Geom. 61(1): 1-49 (May, 2002). DOI: 10.4310/jdg/1090351319

Abstract

We show that the set of C Riemannian metrics on S2 or ℝP2 whose geodesic flow has positive topological entropy is open and dense in the C2 topology. The proof is partially based on an analogue of Franks' lemma for geodesic flows on surfaces.

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Gonzalo Contreras-Barandiarán. Gabriel P. Paternain. "Genericity of Geodesic Flows with Positive Topological Entropy on S2." J. Differential Geom. 61 (1) 1 - 49, May, 2002. https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1090351319

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Published: May, 2002
First available in Project Euclid: 20 July 2004

zbMATH: 1048.53061
MathSciNet: MR1949783
Digital Object Identifier: 10.4310/jdg/1090351319

Rights: Copyright © 2002 Lehigh University

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