Geodesic flows on closed Riemannian manifolds without focal points
Izvestiya. Mathematics , Tome 11 (1977) no. 6, pp. 1195-1228
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In this paper it is proved that a geodesic flow on a two-dimensional compact manifold of genus greater than 1 with Riemannian metric without focal points is isomorphic with a Bernoulli flow. This result generalizes to the multidimensional case. The proof is based on establishing some metric properties of flows with nonzero Ljapunov exponents (the $K$-property, etc.), and also the construction of horospheres and leaves on a very wide class of Riemannian manifolds, together with a study of some of their geometric properties.
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Ya. B. Pesin. Geodesic flows on closed Riemannian manifolds without focal points. Izvestiya. Mathematics , Tome 11 (1977) no. 6, pp. 1195-1228. http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/IM2_1977_11_6_a3/