Geodesic and Horocyclic Trajectories

Download or read book Geodesic and Horocyclic Trajectories written by Françoise Dal’Bo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-11-12 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geodesic and Horocyclic Trajectories presents an introduction to the topological dynamics of two classical flows associated with surfaces of curvature −1, namely the geodesic and horocycle flows. Written primarily with the idea of highlighting, in a relatively elementary framework, the existence of gateways between some mathematical fields, and the advantages of using them, historical aspects of this field are not addressed and most of the references are reserved until the end of each chapter in the Comments section. Topics within the text cover geometry, and examples, of Fuchsian groups; topological dynamics of the geodesic flow; Schottky groups; the Lorentzian point of view and Trajectories and Diophantine approximations.