Non-autonomous curves on surfaces

DOI10.3934/JMD.2021010MaRDI QIDQ2046804zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Khanevsky

Publication date 19 August 2021

Published in Journal of Modern Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07884

zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian dynamicsnonautonomous diffeomorphisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems involving smooth mappings and diffeomorphisms (37C05) Flows on surfaces (37E35) Relations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems with algebraic geometry, complex analysis, special functions (37J38) Relations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems with topology, geometry and differential geometry (symplectic geometry, Poisson geometry, etc.) (37J39) Nonautonomous Hamiltonian dynamical systems (Painlevé equations, etc.) (37J65)

Abstract: Consider a symplectic surface $Sigma$ with two properly embedded Hamiltonian isotopic curves $L$ and $L^{\prime }$. Suppose $ginHam(Sigma)$ is a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism which sends $L$ to $L^{\prime }$. Which dynamical properties of $g$ can be detected by the pair $(L,L^{\prime })$? We discuss two cases where one can deduce that $g$ is `chaotic': non-autonomous or even of positive entropy.

Review text

This paper is part of a broader investigation of the properties of a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism \(g \in \mathrm{Ham}(\Sigma)\) on a symplectic surface \(\Sigma\) using its action on embedded curves. Loosely speaking, the main goal is to exhibit the chaotic behaviour of any Hamiltonian diffeomorphism that maps a curve \(L\) to a suitably chosen curve \(L'\) which is Hamiltonian isotopic to \(L\). For the first main result (Theorem 1), one considers an arbitrary compact connected symplectic surface with an essential simple closed curve \(L\), i.e., \(L\) is not contractible (to a point or a puncture) or isotopic to a boundary component. Then, for any lower bound \(h_0\), it is shown that one can pick a curve \(L'\) such that if \(g \in \mathrm{Ham}(\Sigma)\) satisfies \(g(L)=L'\), then the topological entropy of \(g\) is at least \(h_0\). In the second main result (Theorem 3), it is shown that if \(\Sigma\) is an annulus and \(L\) is a union of two chords, we can pick \(L'\) so that \(g \in \mathrm{Ham}(\Sigma)\) must be far from being autonomous (for the Hofer metric) in order to map \(L\) to \(L'\). These two results are proved in Sections 3 and 4, respectively. They rely heavily on certain quasimorphisms on \(\mathrm{Ham}(\Sigma)\) studied in [\textit{M. Brandenbursky} and \textit{M. Marcinkowski}, J. Mod. Dyn. 15, 143--163 (2019; Zbl 1443.37021); \textit{M. Entov} and \textit{L. Polterovich}, Int. Math. Res. Not. 2003, No. 30, 1635--1676 (2003; Zbl 1047.53055)].

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