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Lyapunov exponents for a stochastic analogue of the geodesic flow
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Abstract:

New invariants for a Riemannian manifold are defined as Lyapunov exponents of a stochastic analogue of the geodesic flow. A lower bound is given reminiscent of corresponding results for the geodesic flow, and an upper bound is given for surfaces of positive curvature. For surfaces of constant negative curvature a direct method via the Doob $h$-transform is used to determine the full Lyapunov structure relating the stable manifolds to the horocycles.
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  • © Copyright 1986 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 295 (1986), 85-105
  • MSC: Primary 58G32; Secondary 58F11, 60H10
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1986-0831190-1
  • MathSciNet review: 831190