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Polytopes and C0 -Riemannian Metrics with Positive Topological Entropy

April 17, 2026
Abstract
The topological entropy of geodesic flows has been extensively studied since the foundational works of Dinaburg and Manning. It measures the exponential complexity of the geodesic flow of a Riemannian manifold, and there are several results connecting it to the geometry and topology of a Riemannian manifold. In this talk I will explain how recent results obtained jointly with Dahinden, Meiwes, and Pirnapasov can be used to give a meaningful extension of the topological entropy to C0-Riemannian metrics; i.e. Riemannian metrics which are continuous but not necessarily differentiable. Similarly, using contact geometry I will explain how we can talk in a meaningful way about the topological entropy of convex and starshaped polytopes in R4, thinking of them as C0-contact forms. This is joint work with Matthias Meiwes.