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Magnetic flows and Gaussian thermostats on manifolds of negative curvature

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, U.S.A. E-mail: maciejw@math.arizona.edu

Abstract

We consider a class of flows which includes both magnetic flows and Gaussian thermostats of external fields. We give sufficient conditions for such flows on manifolds of negative sectional curvature to be Anosov.

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Fundamenta Mathematicae
2000/163/2
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Pages:
177-191
Main language of publication
English
Received
1999-07-28
Accepted
1999-10-18
Published
2000
Exact and natural sciences