A generic property of exact magnetic Lagrangians (Q1760081)
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A generic property of exact magnetic Lagrangians (English)
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12 November 2012
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The authors study the number of (ergodic) Mather minimizing measures for generic Lagrangian systems of magnetic type. Most papers on generic properties of Lagrangian systems follow [\textit{R. Mañé}, Nonlinearity 9, No. 2, 273--310 (1996; Zbl 0886.58037)] and consider perturbations by small potentials. Here it is more natural to consider variations of the magnetic field and to perturb the system by small one-forms; this is what the authors do. Apart from that difference, they closely follow [the reviewer and \textit{G. Contreras}, Ann. Math. (2) 167, No. 3, 1099--1108 (2008; Zbl 1175.37067)] and use the main abstract results of that paper (the more recent tools of the reviewer [Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 197, No. 3, 1011-1031 (2010; Zbl 1247.70034)] would have also been suitable). One important fact allowing to consider perturbations by potentials in the approach of Mañé is that the Mather measures of a given Lagrangian are separated by potentials, because they are all supported on the same Lipschitz graph (this is the famous Mather graph property; see [\textit{J. Mather}, Math. Z. 207, No. 2, 169--207 (1991; Zbl 0696.58027)]). This is the step which has to be modified in the present setting. It is possible to perturb magnetic Lagrangians by one-forms because one-forms separate the Mather measure of a given magnetic Lagrangian (Lemma 2.4). This follows from the fact that the Mather measures of a magnetic Lagrangian are all supported on a positive energy surface (which does not intersect the zero section) and on the same Lipschitz graph.
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Mather's theory
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exact magnetic Lagrangian
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ergodic minimizing measure
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generic property
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static class
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