A simple proof of polar decomposition in pseudo-Euclidean geometry
We give a simple direct proof of the polar decomposition for separated linear maps in pseudo-Euclidean geometry.
Absolute continuity, Lyapunov exponents and rigidity I: geodesic flows
We consider volume-preserving perturbations of the time-one map of the geodesic flow of a compact surface with negative curvature. We show that if the Liouville measure has Lebesgue disintegration along the center foliation then the perturbation is itself the time-one map of a smooth volume-preserving flow, and that otherwise the disintegration is necessarily atomic.
Abundance of hyperbolicity in the topology
Asymptotic windings over the trefoil knot.
Consider the group G:=PSL2(R) and its subgroups Γ:= PSL2(Z) and Γ':=DSL2(Z). G/Γ is a canonical realization (up to an homeomorphism) of the complement S3T of the trefoil knot T, and G/Γ' is a canonical realization of the 6-fold branched cyclic cover of S3T, which has a 3-dimensional cohomology of 1-forms.Putting natural left-invariant Riemannian metrics on G, it makes sense to ask which is the asymptotic homology performed by the Brownian motion in G/Γ', describing thereby in an intrinsic way part...