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Gibbs u-states for the foliated geodesic flow and transverse invariant measures

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This paper is devoted to the study of Gibbs u-states for the geodesic flow tangent to a foliation F of a manifold M having negatively curved leaves. By definition, they are the probability measures on the unit tangent bundle to the foliation that are invariant under the foliated geodesic flow and have Lebesgue disintegration in the unstable manifolds of this flow. p]On the one hand we give sufficient conditions for the existence of transverse invariant measures. In particular we prove that when the foliated geodesic flow has a Gibbs su-state, i.e. an invariant measure with Lebesgue disintegration both in the stable and unstable manifolds, then this measure has to be obtained by combining a transverse invariant measure and the Liouville measure on the leaves. p]On the other hand we exhibit a bijective correspondence between the set of Gibbs u-states and a set of probability measure on M that we call φu-harmonic. Such measures have Lebesgue disintegration in the leaves and their local densities have a very specific form: they possess an integral representation analogue to the Poisson representation of harmonic functions.

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Alvarez, S. Gibbs u-states for the foliated geodesic flow and transverse invariant measures. Isr. J. Math. 221, 869–940 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11856-017-1578-8

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