Surfaces of section for geodesic flows of closed surfaces

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Main Authors: Contreras, Gonzalo, Knieper, Gerhard, Mazzucchelli, Marco, Schulz, Benjamin H.
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Published: 2022
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author Contreras, Gonzalo
Knieper, Gerhard
Mazzucchelli, Marco
Schulz, Benjamin H.
author_facet Contreras, Gonzalo
Knieper, Gerhard
Mazzucchelli, Marco
Schulz, Benjamin H.
contents We prove several results concerning the existence of surfaces of section for the geodesic flows of closed orientable Riemannian surfaces. The surfaces of section $Σ$ that we construct are either Birkhoff sections, meaning that they intersect every sufficiently long orbit segment of the geodesic flow, or at least they have some hyperbolic components in $\partialΣ$ as limit sets of the orbits of the geodesic flow that do not return to $Σ$. In order to prove these theorems, we provide a study of configurations of simple closed geodesics of closed orientable Riemannian surfaces, which may have independent interest. Our arguments are based on the curve shortening flow.
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spellingShingle Surfaces of section for geodesic flows of closed surfaces
Contreras, Gonzalo
Knieper, Gerhard
Mazzucchelli, Marco
Schulz, Benjamin H.
Differential Geometry
Dynamical Systems
Symplectic Geometry
53C22, 37D40, 53D25
We prove several results concerning the existence of surfaces of section for the geodesic flows of closed orientable Riemannian surfaces. The surfaces of section $Σ$ that we construct are either Birkhoff sections, meaning that they intersect every sufficiently long orbit segment of the geodesic flow, or at least they have some hyperbolic components in $\partialΣ$ as limit sets of the orbits of the geodesic flow that do not return to $Σ$. In order to prove these theorems, we provide a study of configurations of simple closed geodesics of closed orientable Riemannian surfaces, which may have independent interest. Our arguments are based on the curve shortening flow.
title Surfaces of section for geodesic flows of closed surfaces
topic Differential Geometry
Dynamical Systems
Symplectic Geometry
53C22, 37D40, 53D25
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.11977