No label defined (Q4348151)

A Mizohata structure on a two-dimensional manifold \(M\) is the datum of a one-dimensional smooth subbundle \({\mathcal L}\) of the complexified tangent bundle CTM such that whenever \(p\) is in the characteristic set \(\Sigma= \{p\in M; {\mathcal L}_p= \overline{\mathcal L}_p\}\), then \([{\mathcal L},\overline{\mathcal L}]_p\neq 0\), where \([ , ]\) denotes the Lie bracket. The author considers Mizohata structures on \(S^2\) with \(\Sigma\) connected and studies the group \(\Aut{\mathcal L}= \{\varphi: S^2\to S^2\), \(\varphi\) is a diffeomorphism such that \(\varphi_*{\mathcal L}= {\mathcal L}\}\). The main result is that \({\mathcal L}\) is ``standard'' whenever \(\Aut{\mathcal L}\) contains either a nonperiodic element or an element which transforms one connected component of \(S^2\setminus\Sigma\) to the other, whereas when \({\mathcal L}\) is nonstandard, then \(\Aut{\mathcal L}\) is finite and the subgroup of elements which leave invariant the components of \(S^2\setminus\Sigma\) is isomorphic to \(\mathbb{Z}_p\) for some \(p\in\mathbb{N}\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0865.00044].