Existence of noncontractible periodic orbits of Hamiltonian systems separating two Lagrangian tori on T^* T^n with application to nonconvex systems

DOI10.4310/JSG.2017.V15.N3.A10MaRDI QIDQ1689670zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jinxin Xue

Publication date 17 January 2018

Published in The Journal of Symplectic Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.5193

zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian systemhomotopy classesLagrangian toriMorse-Bott theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12) Periodic and almost periodic solutions for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H12) Quasi-periodic motions and invariant tori for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K43)

Abstract: In this paper, we show the existence of non contractible periodic orbits in Hamiltonian systems defined on $T^{\ast }{T}^n$ separating two Lagrangian tori under certain cone assumption. Our result answers a question of Polterovich in cite{P} in a sharp way. As an application, we find periodic orbits of almost all the homotopy types on a dense set of energy level in Lorentzian type mechanical Hamiltonian systems defined on $T^{\ast }{T}^2$. This solves a problem of Arnold in cite{A}.

Review text

The paper deals with periodic orbits for Hamiltonian systems on symplectic manifolds. It was remarked in [\textit{V. L. Ginzburg}, The breadth of symplectic and Poisson geometry. Boston: Birkhäuser. 139--172 (2005; Zbl 1062.53002)] that a compactly supported function with sufficiently large variation must have fast non-trivial periodic orbits or even one-periodic orbits under a certain assumption. However, it is known that there is a counterexample to the assertion. Based on this example, the author considers as a symplectic manifold the cotangent bundle of the \(n\)-dimensional torus \(\mathbb{T}^n\). He proves that there exist non-contractible periodic orbits for Hamiltonian systems defined on \(T^*\mathbb{T}^n\) which separate two Lagrangian tori. The authors makes use of Morse-Bott theory. The result answer a question which \textit{V. I. Arnold} asked in [in: Trends and perspectives in applied mathematics. New York: Springer-Verlag. 1--20 (1994; Zbl 0806.53078)].

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