# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

April  2014, 8(2): 139-176. doi: 10.3934/jmd.2014.8.139

## Growth rate of periodic orbits for geodesic flows over surfaces with radially symmetric focusing caps

 1 Department of Mathematics, Indiana University, Rawles Hall, 831 East 3rd St, Bloomington, IN 47405, United States

Received  November 2011 Revised  August 2014 Published  November 2014

We obtain a precise asymptotic formula for the growth rate of periodic orbits of the geodesic flow over metrics on surfaces with negative curvature outside of a disjoint union of radially symmetric focusing caps of positive curvature. This extends results of G. Margulis and G. Knieper for negative and nonpositive curvature respectively.
Citation: Bryce Weaver. Growth rate of periodic orbits for geodesic flows over surfaces with radially symmetric focusing caps. Journal of Modern Dynamics, 2014, 8 (2) : 139-176. doi: 10.3934/jmd.2014.8.139
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