The regularity of the linear drift in negatively curved spaces

Abstract

We show the linear drift of the Brownian motion on the universal cover of a closed connected Riemannian manifold is $C^{k-2}$ differentiable along any $C^{k}$ curve in the manifold of $C^k$ metrics with negative sectional curvature. We also show that the stochastic entropy of the Brownian motion is $C^1$ differentiable along any $C^{3}$ curve of $C^3$ metrics with negative sectional curvature. We formulate the first derivatives of the linear drift and entropy, respectively, and show they are critical at locally symmetric metrics.