A geometric correspondence for reparameterizations of geodesic flows
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| author | Cantrell, Stephen Martínez-Granado, Dídac Reyes, Eduardo |
| author_facet | Cantrell, Stephen Martínez-Granado, Dídac Reyes, Eduardo |
| contents | For any non-elementary, torsion-free hyperbolic group, we provide a correspondence between the left-invariant Gromov-hyperbolic metrics on the group that are quasi-isometric to a word metric, and continuous reparameterizations of the associated Mineyev's flow space. From this correspondence, we produce the first examples of continuous reparameterizations of geodesic flows on negatively curved manifolds with all periodic orbits having integer lengths. For surface and free groups, this also yields isometric actions on Gromov-hyperbolic spaces on which loxodromic elements are precisely the non-simple elements. Key ingredients in our proof are an analysis of the geometry of Mineyev's flow space (such as the metric-Anosov property recently proven by Dilsavor), and the density of Green metrics in the moduli space of (symmetric) metrics on the group.
We further establish continuity of the Bowen--Margulis--Sullivan geodesic current map on the moduli space of metrics, as well as a Bowen-type description of these currents as limits of sums of appropriately normalized atomic geodesic currents. For surface groups, we apply this continuity result to show that the Bowen--Margulis--Sullivan map restricts to a topological embedding on Hitchin components (up to contragradient involution) when equipped with their Hilbert lengths. |
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| spellingShingle | A geometric correspondence for reparameterizations of geodesic flows Cantrell, Stephen Martínez-Granado, Dídac Reyes, Eduardo Dynamical Systems Group Theory Geometric Topology For any non-elementary, torsion-free hyperbolic group, we provide a correspondence between the left-invariant Gromov-hyperbolic metrics on the group that are quasi-isometric to a word metric, and continuous reparameterizations of the associated Mineyev's flow space. From this correspondence, we produce the first examples of continuous reparameterizations of geodesic flows on negatively curved manifolds with all periodic orbits having integer lengths. For surface and free groups, this also yields isometric actions on Gromov-hyperbolic spaces on which loxodromic elements are precisely the non-simple elements. Key ingredients in our proof are an analysis of the geometry of Mineyev's flow space (such as the metric-Anosov property recently proven by Dilsavor), and the density of Green metrics in the moduli space of (symmetric) metrics on the group. We further establish continuity of the Bowen--Margulis--Sullivan geodesic current map on the moduli space of metrics, as well as a Bowen-type description of these currents as limits of sums of appropriately normalized atomic geodesic currents. For surface groups, we apply this continuity result to show that the Bowen--Margulis--Sullivan map restricts to a topological embedding on Hitchin components (up to contragradient involution) when equipped with their Hilbert lengths. |
| title | A geometric correspondence for reparameterizations of geodesic flows |
| topic | Dynamical Systems Group Theory Geometric Topology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02585 |