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Equidistribution results for geodesic flows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2013

ABDELHAMID AMROUN
ABDELHAMID AMROUN*
Affiliation:
Département de Mathématiques, Université Paris Sud, CNRS UMR 8628, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France (email: Abdelhamid.Amroun@math.u-psud.fr)
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Using the works of Mañé [On the topological entropy of the geodesic flows. J. Differential Geom.45 (1989), 74–93] and Paternain [Topological pressure for geodesic flows. Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér. (4) 33 (2000), 121–138] we study the distribution of geodesic arcs with respect to equilibrium states of the geodesic flow on a closed manifold, equipped with a $\mathcal {C}^{\infty }$Riemannian metric. We prove large-deviation lower and upper bounds and a contraction principle for the geodesic flow in the space of probability measures of the unit tangent bundle. We deduce a way of approximating equilibrium states for continuous potentials.

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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , June 2014 , pp. 742 - 764
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©2013 Cambridge University Press 

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