Expansiveness for the geodesic and horocycle flows on compact Riemann surfaces of constant negative curvature

Abstract

We study expansive properties for the geodesic and horocycle flows on compact Riemann surfaces of constant negative curvature. It is well-known that the geodesic flow is expansive in the sense of Bowen-Walters and the horocycle flow is positive and negative separating in the sense of Gura. In this paper, we give a new proof of the expansiveness in the sense of Bowen-Walters for the geodesic flow and show that the horocycle flow is positive and negative kinematic expensive in the sense of Artigue as well as expansive in the sense of Katok-Hasselblatt but not expensive in the sense of Bowen-Walters. We also point out that the geodesic flow is neither positive nor negative separating.