# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

2010, 17: 80-89. doi: 10.3934/era.2010.17.80

## Longitudinal foliation rigidity and Lipschitz-continuous invariant forms for hyperbolic flows

 1 Département de Mathématiques, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, avenue Adolphe Chauvin, 95302, Cergy-Pontoise Cedex 2 Institut de Recherche Mathematique Avancée, UMR 7501 du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 7 Rue René Descartes, 67084, Strasbourg Cedex 3 Department of Mathematics, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155

Received  May 2010 Published  October 2010

In several contexts the defining invariant structures of a hyperbolic dynamical system are smooth only in systems of algebraic origin, and we prove new results of this smooth rigidity type for a class of flows.
For a transversely symplectic uniformly quasiconformal $C^2$ Anosov flow on a compact Riemannian manifold we define the longitudinal KAM-cocycle and use it to prove a rigidity result: The joint stable/unstable subbundle is Zygmund-regular, and higher regularity implies vanishing of the KAM-cocycle, which in turn implies that the subbundle is Lipschitz-continuous and indeed that the flow is smoothly conjugate to an algebraic one. To establish the latter, we prove results for algebraic Anosov systems that imply smoothness and a special structure for any Lipschitz-continuous invariant 1-form.
We obtain a pertinent geometric rigidity result: Uniformly quasiconformal magnetic flows are geodesic flows of hyperbolic metrics.
Several features of the reasoning are interesting: The use of exterior calculus for Lipschitz-continuous forms, that the arguments for geodesic flows and infranilmanifoldautomorphisms are quite different, and the need for mixing as opposed to ergodicity in the latter case.
Citation: Yong Fang, Patrick Foulon, Boris Hasselblatt. Longitudinal foliation rigidity and Lipschitz-continuous invariant forms for hyperbolic flows. Electronic Research Announcements, 2010, 17: 80-89. doi: 10.3934/era.2010.17.80
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