Abstract
AbstractThis paper concerns a problem which arose from a paper of Sullivan. Let Γ be a discrete group of isometries of hyperbolic space Hd+1. We study the question of when the geodesic flow on the unit tangent bundle UT (Hd+1/Γ) of Hd+1/Γ is ergodic with respect to certain natural measures. As a consequence, we study the question of when Γ is of divergence type. Ergodicity when the non-wandering set of UT (Hd+1/Γ) is compact is already known from the theory of symbolic dynamics, due to Bowen, or from Sullivan's work. For such a Γ, we consider a subgroup Γ1 of Γ with Γ/Γ1 ≅ℤυ and prove the geodesic flow on UT (Hd+1/Γ1) is ergodic (with respect to one of these natural measures) if and only if υ ≤ 2.
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