Horocycle flows for laminations by hyperbolic  Riemann surfaces and Hedlund's theorem

Matilde  Martínez; Shigenori Matsumoto; Alberto  Verjovsky

doi:10.3934/jmd.2016.10.113

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2016, Volume 10: 113-134. Doi: 10.3934/jmd.2016.10.113

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Horocycle flows for laminations by hyperbolic Riemann surfaces and Hedlund's theorem

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Instituto de Matemática y Estadística Rafael Laguardia, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República, J. Herrera y Reissig 565, C.P. 11300 Montevideo
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Department of Mathematics, College of Science and Technology, Nihon University, 1-8-14 Kanda, Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-8308
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 273, Admon. de correos #3, C.P. 62251 Cuernavaca, Morelos

Received: March 31, 2015

Published: May 2016

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We study the dynamics of the geodesic and horocycle flows of the unit tangent bundle $(\hat M, T^1\mathfrak{F})$ of a compact minimal lamination $(M,\mathfrak{F})$ by negatively curved surfaces. We give conditions under which the action of the affine group generated by the joint action of these flows is minimal and examples where this action is not minimal. In the first case, we prove that if $\mathfrak{F}$ has a leaf which is not simply connected, the horocyle flow is topologically transitive.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 37C85, 37D40, 57R30.

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