On the entropy of conservative flows

Abstract

We obtain a $C^1$-generic subset of the incompressible flows in a closed three-dimensional manifold where Pesin's entropy formula holds thus establishing the continuous-time version of \cite{T}. Moreover, in any compact manifold of dimension larger or equal to three we obtain that the metric entropy function and the integrated upper Lyapunov exponent function are not continuous with respect to the $C^1$ Whitney topology. Finally, we establish the $C^2$-genericity of Pesin's entropy formula in the context of Hamiltonian four-dimensional flows.

10 pages