Equidistribution of geodesic flow pushes via exponential mixing.

Speaker: Jon Chaika

Date: Mon, Oct 5, 2020

Location: Zoom

Conference: Online working seminar in Ergodic Theory

Subject: Mathematics

Class: Scientific

Abstract:

Pick a point at random in a finite volume hyperbolic surface and simultaneously flow in all directions from it. For the typical starting point these expanding circles will equidistribute and this talk will present a (more general) argument of Margulis establishing this fact.