Lower bounds on volumes of vector fields

DOI10.1007/BF01190122MaRDI QIDQ804031zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander G. Reznikov

Publication date 1992

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01190122

zbMATH Keywords

geodesic flowslower boundsvolumes of vector fields on hypersurfaces of euclidean space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) Variational inequalities (global problems) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E35)

Review text

The notion of volume of a unit vector field on a smooth Riemannian manifold was introduced recently H. Gluck and W. Ziller. They defined it as a volume of the corresponding submanifold in the tangent bundle endowed by Sasaki metric. Generators of Hopf fibrations in the standard three-dimensional sphere minimize the volume functional, as was shown by Gluck and Ziller. In the spheres of higher dimensions, these generators do not minimize volume even locally, which was proved by D. Johnson. Here we give lower bounds on volumes of vector fields on hypersurfaces of euclidean space. We also give lower bounds on volumes of generators of geodesic flows on unit tangent bundles to compact manifolds and generators of geodesic fibrations with closed fibers. This generalizes inequalities, obtained by Gluck and Ziller.

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