Uniformity of geodesic flow in non-integrable 3-manifolds

Abstract

Almost nothing is known concerning the extension of $3$-dimensional Kronecker--Weyl equidistribution theorem on geodesic flow from the unit torus $[0,1{)}^3$ to non-integrable finite polycube translation $3$-manifolds. In the special case when a finite polycube translation $3$-manifold is the cartesian product of a finite polysquare translation surface with the unit torus $[0,1)$, we have developed a splitting method with which we can make some progress. This is a somewhat restricted system, in the sense that one of the directions is integrable. We then combine this with a split-covering argument to extend our results to some other finite polycube translation $3$-manifolds which satisfy a rather special condition and where none of the $3$ directions is integrable.

44 pages, 32 figures