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Asymptotic windings over the trefoil knot
Author(s) -
Jacques Franchi
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
revista matemática iberoamericana
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.569
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 2235-0616
pISSN - 0213-2230
DOI - 10.4171/rmi/434
Subject(s) - trefoil , knot (papermaking) , trefoil knot , mathematics , physics , computer science , knot theory , materials science , art , composite material , visual arts
Consider the group G:=PSL2(R) and its subgroups ?:= PSL2(Z) and ?':=DSL2(Z). G/? is a canonical realization (up to an homeomorphism) of the complement S3T of the trefoil knot T, and G/?' is a canonical realization of the 6-fold branched cyclic cover of S3T, which has a 3-dimensional cohomology of 1-forms.Putting natural left-invariant Riemannian metrics on G, it makes sense to ask which is the asymptotic homology performed by the Brownian motion in G/?', describing thereby in an intrinsic way part of the asymptotic Brownian behavior in the fundamental group of the complement of the trefoil knot. A good basis of the cohomology of G/?', made of harmonic 1-forms, is calculated, and then the asymptotic Brownian behavior is obtained, by means of the joint asymptotic law of the integrals of the above basis along the Brownian paths.Finally the geodesics of G are determined, a natural class of ergodic measures for the geodesic flow is exhibited, and the asymptotic geodesic behavior in G/?' is calculated, by reduction to its Brownian analogue, though it is not precisely the same (counter to the hyperbolic case).

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