The conjugation method in symplectic dynamics

DOI10.4171/RMI/1048MaRDI QIDQ1733570zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Luis Hernández Corbato, Francisco Presas

Publication date 21 March 2019

Published in Revista Matemática Iberoamericana (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.09161, http://hdl.handle.net/10261/194562

zbMATH Keywords

contactomorphismsymplectomorphism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contact systems (37J55) Canonical transformations in symplectic and contact geometry (53D22)

Abstract: We prove the existence of minimal symplectomorphisms and strictly ergodic contactomorphisms on manifolds which admit a locally free $mathbb{S}^1$--action by symplectomorphisms and contactomorphisms, respectively. The proof adapts the conjugation method, introduced by Anosov and Katok, to the contact and symplectic setting.

Review text

As an evidence on how the removal of the Hamiltonian condition destroys most of the rigidity in the dynamics, the following theorem is proved: Theorem 1.1. If a symplectic manifold $(M,\omega)$ admits a locally free $\mathbb{S}^1$-action by symplectomorphisms, then there exists $\psi\in\mathrm{Symp}_0(M)$ such that $\psi$ is minimal. Here $\mathrm{Symp}(M)$ is the group of symplectomorphisms of $(M,\omega)$, $\mathrm{Symp}_0(M)$ is its connected component of the identity, and a map is called minimal if every orbit is dense. For contact manifolds $(M,\xi)$, the following theorem is proved: Theorem 1.2. If a contact manifold $(M,\xi)$ admits a locally free $\mathbb{S}^1$-action by contactomorphism, then there exists $\psi\in\mathrm{Cont}_0(M,\xi)$ such that $\psi$ is strictly ergodic. Here $\mathrm{Cont}_0(M,\xi)$ is a connected component of the group of contactomorphisms of $(M,\xi)$, and a map is called strictly ergodic, if it is minimal and has just one invariant Borel probability measure. The diffeomorphism constructed in Theorems 1.1 and 1.2 can be chosen arbitrarily $C^\infty$-close to the identity (Corollary 1.4). Proofs are done by using the conjugation method [\textit{D. V. Anosov} and \textit{A. B. Katok}, Trans. Mosc. Math. Soc. 23, 1--35 (1972; Zbl 0255.58007)].

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