Periodic magnetic geodesics on Heisenberg manifolds (Q1979478)

The authors consider the magnetic geodesics of a left-invariant Riemannian metric and a left-invariant exact magnetic field on Heisenberg groups and their quotients. There are three main results. In Theorem 1 it is stated that the set of closed geodesics of exact magnetic flows in left quotients of the Heisenberg group can be explicitly computed. This extends work of \textit{P. Eberlein} [Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér. (4) 27, No. 5, 611--660 (1994; Zbl 0820.53047)] and \textit{R. Gornet} and \textit{M. B. Mast} [Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér. (4) 33, No. 2, 181--209 (2000; Zbl 0968.53036)] in the Riemannian case. In Theorem 2 the authors show that the density property of closed geodesics in the tangent bundle continues to hold for large energy values, i.e., for values far above the Mañé critical value (see [\textit{K. Cieliebak} et al., Geom. Topol. 14, No. 3, 1765--1870 (2010; Zbl 1239.53110)] for the symplectic point of view). Theorem 3 gives a version of the length spectrum rigidity for the case of left-invariant metrics and exact magnetic fields on compact quotients of the Heisenberg group. This is a classical problem in Riemannian geometry with solutions for surfaces of negative curvature and compact flat manifolds [\textit{C. B. Croke}, Comment. Math. Helv. 65, No. 1, 150--169 (1990; Zbl 0704.53035); \textit{J.-P. Otal}, Ann. Math. (2) 131, No. 1, 151--162 (1990; Zbl 0699.58018); \textit{J.-P. Otal}, Comment. Math. Helv. 65, No. 2, 334--347 (1990; Zbl 0736.53042)]. The case of magnetic flows on negatively curved surfaces was studied in [\textit{S. Grognet}, ``Marked length spectrum of magnetized surfaces'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:math/0502424}].