Expansive measures for flows

Abstract

We extend the concept of expansive measure \cite{am} defined for homeomorphism to flows. We obtain some properties for such measures including abscense of singularities in the support, aperiodicity, expansivity with respect to time-$T$ maps, invariance under flow-equivalence, negligibleness of orbits, characterization of expansive measures for expansive flows and naturallity under suspensions. As an application we obtain a new proof of the well known fact that there are no continuous expansive flows on surfaces (e.g. \cite{hs}).