These lectures are a mostly self-contained sequel to Vaughn Climenhaga's talks in week 1. The focus of the week 2 lectures will be on uniqueness of equilibrium states for rank 1 geodesic flows, and their mixing properties. Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself showed recently that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. I will discuss the proof of this result. With this result in hand, the question of when the “pressure gap” hypothesis can be verified becomes crucial. I will sketch our proof of the “entropy gap”, which is a new direct constructive proof of a result by Knieper. I will also describe new joint work with Ben Call, which shows that all the unique equilibrium states provided above have the Kolmogorov property. When the manifold has dimension at least 3, this is a new result even for the Knieper-Bowen-Margulis measure of maximal entropy. The common thread that links all of these arguments is that they rely on weak orbit specification properties in the spirit of Bowen.[-]

Given a quantum Hamiltonian, I will explain how the dynamical properties of the underlying classical Hamiltonian affect the behaviour of quantum eigenstates in the semiclassical limit. I will mostly focus on two opposite dynamical paradigms: completely integrable systems and chaotic ones. I will introduce tools from microlocal analysis and show how to use them in order to illustrate the classical-quantum correspondance and to compare properties of completely integrable and chaotic systems.[-]

Given a quantum Hamiltonian, I will explain how the dynamical properties of the underlying classical Hamiltonian affect the behaviour of quantum eigenstates in the semiclassical limit. I will mostly focus on two opposite dynamical paradigms: completely integrable systems and chaotic ones. I will introduce tools from microlocal analysis and show how to use them in order to illustrate the classical-quantum correspondance and to compare properties of completely integrable and chaotic systems.[-]

A (pseudo)-Anosov flow on a 3-manifold can be understood through its orbit space, a bifoliated plane with a natural action of the fundamental group of the manifold. In this minicourse, we will describe techniques to study the dynamics of these orbit space actions as a means to understand the topological theory and the classification of (pseudo)Anosov flows in dimension 3. This leads to a more general theory of 'Anosov-like' actions on bifoliated planes, which form a rich class of discrete dynamical systems including but not limited to the orbit space actions from flows.[-]

The aim of this lecture series is to study some ergodic properties of the geodesic flow on surfaces without conjugate points. In the first two lectures we give an introduction the geodesic flow and discuss the geometric properties of the surface that are needed to study, this includes the action of the fundamental group on the universal cover, the Gromov boundary and Morse Lemma. In the third lecture we will introduce the Poincaré series and define the measure of maximal entropy via Patterson-Sullivan construction. In the fourth lecture, we will show that the measure of maximal entropy is unique and we will use the cross ratio function to prove the geodesic flow is mixing with respect to the constructed measure. In the last lecture, we will prove the prime geodesic theorem of the surface. This is based on two joint work with Gerhard Knieper and Vaughn Climenhaga.[-]

The aim of this lecture series is to study some ergodic properties of the geodesic flow on surfaces without conjugate points. In the first two lectures we give an introduction the geodesic flow and discuss the geometric properties of the surface that are needed to study,this includes the action of the fundamental group on the universal cover, the Gromov boundary and Morse Lemma. In the third lecture we will introduce the Poincaré series and define the measure of maximal entropy via Patterson-Sullivan construction. In the fourth lecture, we will show that the measure of maximal entropy is unique and we will use the cross ratio function to prove the geodesic flow is mixing with respect to the constructed measure. In the last lecture, we will prove the prime geodesic theorem of the surface. This is based on two joint work with Gerhard Knieper and Vaughn Climenhaga.[-]