Entropy rigidity for 3D conservative Anosov flows and dispersing billiards

Abstract: Given an integer $k \geq 5$, and a $C^k$ Anosov flow $\Phi$ on some compact connected $3$-manifold preserving a smooth volume, we show that the measure of maximal entropy (MME) is the volume measure if and only if $\Phi$ is $C^{k-\varepsilon}$-conjugate to an algebraic flow, for $\varepsilon>0$ arbitrarily small. Besides the rigidity, we also study the entropy flexibility, and show that the metric entropy with respect to the volume measure and the topological entropy of suspension flows over Anosov diffeomorphisms on the $2$-torus achieve all possible values subject to natural normalizations. Moreover, in the case of dispersing billiards, we show that if the measure of maximal entropy is the volume measure, then the Birkhoff Normal Form of regular periodic orbits with a homoclinic intersection is linear.