Shrinking targets in fast mixing flows and the geodesic flow on negatively curved manifolds

Abstract

We show that in a rapidly mixing flow with an invariant measure, the time which is needed to hit a given section is related to a sort of conditional dimension of the measure at the section. The result is applied to the geodesic flow of compact variable negative sectional curvature manifolds, establishing a logarithm law for such kind of flow.

15 pages

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