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Real analytic Bernoulli geodesic flows on S2
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 September 2008
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We obtain a family of metrics on the two-dimensional sphere whose geodesic flow is ergodic and Bernoulli. This family includes real analytic metrics.
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