Orbit equivalences of ℝ–covered Anosov flows and hyperbolic-like actions on the line

Barthelmé, Thomas¹ ; Mann, Kathryn²

¹ Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen’s University, Kingston ON, Canada
² Department of Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States

Geometry & topology, Tome 28 (2024) no. 2, pp. 867-899.

Résumé

We prove a rigidity result for group actions on the line whose elements have what we call “hyperbolic-like” dynamics. Using this, we give a rigidity theorem for $ℝ$–covered Anosov flows on $3$–manifolds, characterizing orbit equivalent flows in terms of the elements of the fundamental group represented by periodic orbits. As consequences of this, we give an efficient criterion to determine the isotopy classes of self-orbit equivalences of $ℝ$–covered Anosov flows, and prove finiteness of contact Anosov flows on any given manifold.

In the appendix, with Jonathan Bowden, we prove that orbit equivalences of contact Anosov flows correspond exactly to isomorphisms of the associated contact structures. This gives a powerful tool to translate results on Anosov flows to contact geometry and vice versa. We illustrate its use by giving two new results in contact geometry: the existence of manifolds with arbitrarily many distinct Anosov contact structures, answering a question of Foulon, Hasselblatt and Vaugon, and a virtual description of the group of contact transformations of a Anosov contact structure, generalizing a result of Giroux and Massot.

Détail

DOI : 10.2140/gt.2024.28.867

Keywords: Anosov flows, actions on real line

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