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2018/93/3-4 (4) — DOI: 10.5486/PMD.2018.8110 — pp. 323-360

The asymptotic behavior of geodesic circles in any 2-torus: a sub-mixing property

Authors: Nobuhiro Innami and Toshiro Okura

Abstract:

We study the behavior of the level sets of Busemann functions in the universal covering plane of a $2$-torus in detail. We prove that in any 2-torus $T^2$, for any point $p$ and for any $\varepsilon>0$, there exists a number $R>0$ such that the geodesic circles with center $p$ and radii $t$ are $\varepsilon$-dense in $T^2$, for all $t>R$.

Keywords: geodesic circles, torus, sub-mixing, geodesic flows

Mathematics Subject Classification: 53C20, 53C22