Moments of the boundary hitting function for the geodesic flow on a hyperbolic manifold
Geometry & topology, Tome 18 (2014) no. 1, pp. 491-520.

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In this paper we consider geodesic flow on finite-volume hyperbolic manifolds with non-empty totally geodesic boundary. We analyse the time for the geodesic flow to hit the boundary and derive a formula for the moments of the associated random variable in terms of the orthospectrum. We show that the zeroth and first moments correspond to two cases of known identities for the orthospectrum. We also show that the second moment is given by the average time for the geodesic flow to hit the boundary. We further obtain an explicit formula in terms of the trilogarithm functions for the average time for the geodesic flow to hit the boundary in the surface case.

DOI : 10.2140/gt.2014.18.491
Classification : 32Q45, 32G15
Keywords: identities, hyperbolic geometry, moments

Bridgeman, Martin 1 ; Tan, Ser Peow 2

1 Department of Mathematics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
2 Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore, 2 Science Drive, Singapore 117543, Singapore
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Bridgeman, Martin; Tan, Ser Peow. Moments of the boundary hitting function for the geodesic flow on a hyperbolic manifold. Geometry & topology, Tome 18 (2014) no. 1, pp. 491-520. doi : 10.2140/gt.2014.18.491. http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/articles/10.2140/gt.2014.18.491/

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