Spectra and geodesic flows on nilmanifolds: Reductions of Hamiltonian systems and differential operators (Q1335548)

The author analyzes the isospectral deformations on nilmanifolds constructed by Gordon, Wilson and DeTurck from the viewpoint of dynamical systems. The first section is devoted to reviewing a formulation of dynamical systems on Lie groups with left-invariant metrics. In the second section the author considers the Hamiltonian system on the cotangent bundle over a nilmanifold and obtains a family of reduced Hamiltonian systems of it by means of the momentum mapping associated to the symplectic action by the center of the nilpotent Lie group. Corresponding to a subfamily of these reduced Hamiltonian systems, in section 3 the author introduces the Schrödinger operators, which are defined by the connection on the principal torus considered in section 2. In section 4 it is introduced the notion of pseudo-restricted-inner transformation of a Lie algebra, and in section 5 the author shows that each reduced system considered in sections 2 and 3 is left invariant under the deformation of metric generated by a pseudo-restricted-inner transformation. Finally, in section 6 an example of non-trivial isospectral deformation of connections on a line bundle over a Riemannian manifold is given as an application of the obtained results.