Zoll and Tannery metrics from a superintegrable geodesic flow (Q464338): Difference between revisions

This paper is a continuation of [the author et al., J. Geom. Phys. 87, 461--481 (2015; Zbl 1310.37025)], and the subject matters are two-dimensional superintegrable geodesic flows. The geodesic flow for a Riemannian manifold can be regarded as a Hamiltonian flow on the cotangent bundle with the Hamiltonian \(\frac{1}{2} g^{ij} p_i p_j\), where the \(p_i\) are the momenta. The geodesic flow on a manifold of dimension two is called superintegrable if it has two more functionally independent first integrals in addition to the Hamiltonian. Matveev and Shevchishin constructed a family of superintegrable models, involving a linear and a cubic integral in term of the momenta \(p_i\). In [loc. cit.], explicit forms of these metrics on \(S^2\) or on its open sets are obtained. In this paper, using the canonical form for metrics whose geodesics are all closed, the above explicit metrics on \(S^2\) are demonstrated to be Zoll, that is, the geodesics are all closed and of the same length. Several other metrics from [loc. cit.] are shown to be defined on Tannery's orbifold and are shown have closed geodesics. The cubic integrals are also demonstrated explicitly in each case.