Solution

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Let be the generator of the smooth flow. The Anosov flow property requires to be nowhere zero and a continuous splitting of the tangent bundle
which is invariant under . There must be constants and such that, for every , every and every vector in the indicated fibre,
The first inequality defines the Anosov stable bundle; the second defines the Anosov unstable bundle and is equivalent to uniform forward expansion there. The remaining one-dimensional direction is the flow direction. The norm can come from any Riemannian metric, since norms are uniformly equivalent on a closed manifold. The essential requirements are a continuous invariant splitting and estimates uniform in both the base point and time, rather than separate exponential rates along individual orbits.

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