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Variations of the harmonic entropy and linear drift on negatively curved surfaces

  • Karen Butt
  • Alena Erchenko
  • Tristan Humbert
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Abstract

For closed negatively curved surfaces, we obtain formulas for the derivatives of the harmonic entropy of its geodesic flow and the linear drift of its Brownian motion along conformal deformations. We deduce that the harmonic entropy of the geodesic flow of a closed surface of non-constant negative curvature (resp. linear drift of the Brownian motion on its universal cover) is strictly decreasing (resp. increasing) along the normalized Ricci flow. We also prove that any hyperbolic metric on a surface admits a neighborhood in the space of conformal negatively curved metrics in which the linear drift is greater or equal to the Liouville entropy, with equality if and only if the metric is hyperbolic.

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@misc{butt2026variations,
  title = {{Variations of the harmonic entropy and linear drift on negatively curved surfaces}},
  author = {Karen Butt and Alena Erchenko and Tristan Humbert},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.36354},
  eprint = {2610.36354},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.36354},
}
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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Variations of the harmonic entropy and linear drift on negatively curved surfaces
AU  - Karen Butt
AU  - Alena Erchenko
AU  - Tristan Humbert
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/26
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.36354
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.36354
AB  - For closed negatively curved surfaces, we obtain formulas for the derivatives of the harmonic entropy of its geodesic flow and the linear drift of its Brownian motion along conformal deformations. We deduce that the harmonic entropy of the geodesic flow of a closed surface of non-constant negative curvature (resp. linear drift of the Brownian motion on its universal cover) is strictly decreasing (resp. increasing) along the normalized Ricci flow. We also prove that any hyperbolic metric on a surface admits a neighborhood in the space of conformal negatively curved metrics in which the linear drift is greater or equal to the Liouville entropy, with equality if and only if the metric is hyperbolic.
ER  -