Existence of smooth invariant measures for geodesic flows of foliations of Riemannian manifolds
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Abstract:
We construct a nontrivial smooth finite measure invariant under the geodesic flow of a foliation $\mathcal {F}$ of a compact Riemannian manifold $M$ assuming that the transverse mean curvature of $\mathcal {F}$ is distributed "nicely" along some leaf geodesics.References
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- © Copyright 1994 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 120 (1994), 903-906
- MSC: Primary 58F18; Secondary 57R30, 58F17
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1994-1227531-6
- MathSciNet review: 1227531