Appears in collection : Jean-Morlet Chair - Doctoral school : Young mathematicians in dynamical systems / Chaire Jean-Morlet - Ecole doctorale : Paroles aux jeunes chercheurs en systèmes dynamiques

Left-handed flows are 3-dimensional flows which have a particular topological property, namely that every pair of periodic orbits is negatively linked. This property (introduced by Ghys in 2007) implies the existence of as many Bikrhoff sections as possible, and therefore allows to reduce the flow to a suspension in many different ways. It then becomes natural to look for examples. A construction of Birkhoff (1917) suggests that geodesic flows are good candidates. In this conference we determine on which hyperbolic orbifolds is the geodesic flow left-handed: the answer is that yes if the surface is a sphere with three cone points, and no otherwise. dynamical system - geodesic flow - knot - periodic orbit - global section - linking number - fibered knot