Let ${T^t}$ be a smooth flow with positive speed and positive topological entropy on a compact smooth three dimensional manifold, and let $mu$ be an ergodic measure of maximal entropy. We show that either ${T^t}$ is Bernoulli, or ${T^t}$ is isomorphic to the product of a Bernoulli flow and a rotational flow. Applications are given to Reeb flows.
We construct symbolic dynamics on sets of full measure (w.r.t. an ergodic measure of positive entropy) for $C^{1+epsilon}$ flows on compact smooth three-dimensional manifolds. One consequence is that the geodesic flow on the unit tangent bundle of a compact $C^infty$ surface has at least const $times(e^{hT}/T)$ simple closed orbits of period less than $T$, whenever the topological entropy $h$ is positive -- and without further assumptions on the curvature.
We discuss an invertible version of Furstenbergs `Ergodic CP Shift Systems. We show that the explicit regularity of these dynamical systems with respect to magnification of measures, implies certain regularity with respect to translation of measures; We show that the translation action on measures is non-singular, and prove pointwise discrete and continuous ergodic theorems for the translation action.
For every $rinmathbb{N}_{geq 2}cup{infty}$, we show that the space of ergodic measures is path connected for $C^r$-generic Lorenz attractors while it is not connected for $C^r$-dense Lorenz attractors. Various properties of the ergodic measure space for Lorenz attractors have been showed. In particular, a $C^r$-connecting lemma ($rgeq2$) for Lorenz attractors also has been proved. In $C^1$-topology, we obtain similar properties for singular hyperbolic attractors in higher dimensions.
We prove that every $C^1$ three-dimensional flow with positive topological entropy can be $C^1$ approximated by flows with homoclinic orbits. This extends a previous result for $C^1$ surface diffeomorphisms cite{g}.
We show that a topologically mixing $C^infty$ Anosov flow on a 3 dimensional compact manifold is exponential mixing with respect to any equilibrium measure with Holder potential.