Geometriae Dedicata · 2015 · 21 citations · 18 references
Natural SciencesMathematicsPhysicsGeometryThermodynamicsTopologyEntropyGeodesic MotionMetric GeometryRiemannian GeometryGeodesic EquationsGeodesic FlowsMeasure-theoretic EntropyMetric Entropy
The geodesic flow of the flat metric on a torus is minimizing the polynomial entropy among all geodesic flows on this torus. We prove here that this properties characterises the flat metric on the two torus.
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Riemannian tori without conjugate points are flat
Dmitri Burago, Sergei Ivanov · Geometric and Functional Analysis · 1994 · 111 citations