Geodesic flows are Bernoullian

Donald Ornstein*, Benjamin Weiss

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Abstract

A geometric method is developed for proving that transformations are isomorphic to Bernoulli shifts. The method is applied to the geodesic flows on surfaces of negative curvature and it is shown that they are isomorphic to Bernoulli flows.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)184-198
Number of pages15
JournalIsrael Journal of Mathematics
Volume14
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 1973

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