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Reference request: Geodesic flow on a manifold with negative curvature is ergodic
I'm reading about the Mostow's rigidity theorem, and the proof uses the following (maybe well-known) result:
The geodesic flow on a manifold with negative curvature is ergodic.
The lecture note that ...
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Isometry group of a compact hyperbolic surface
Consider a compact surface $M$ of genus $g \geq 2$ with a metric of constant negative curvature. My question is, is it known under what sorts of sufficient conditions such a metric will have non-...
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Random links and $3$-manifolds
In Jeffrey Weeks book "The Shape of Space" he explaines at the end of Chapter 18 (on page 255) the following about the geometrization conjecture:
A non-trivial connected sum $M_1\# M_2$ ...
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Periodic billiard paths in hyperbolic triangles
It is a theorem of Masur that all rational triangles in the Euclidean plane posses a periodic billiard path,
one obeying the reflection law that the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection. ...
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Books that discuss spectral graph theory and its connection to eigenvalue problems in hyperbolic geometry
Hello,
Could you name a couple of books or downloadable lecture notes that discuss spectral graph theory and its connection to spectral problems in hyperbolic Riemann surfaces ? You could also ...
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Reference for the geometry of horospheres
I am looking for a reference to a proof of the following well-know fact (cited for example by
B.Farb in ``Relatively hyperbolic groups'', Geom. Funct. Anal. 8 (1998), no. 5, 810--840); MR1650094,
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