Hamiltonian monodromy and Morse theory

DOI10.1007/S00220-019-03578-2MaRDI QIDQ2174653zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Nikolay N. Martynchuk, Henk Broer, Konstantinos Efstathiou

Publication date 21 April 2020

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00705

zbMATH Keywords

Chern numberscircle bundlescompletely integrable Hamiltonian systemsHamiltonian monodromy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, Hamiltonian and Lagrangian structures, symmetries, invariants (37J06) Obstructions to integrability for finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (nonintegrability criteria) (37J30) Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Relations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems with topology, geometry and differential geometry (symplectic geometry, Poisson geometry, etc.) (37J39) Hamilton's equations (70H05)

Abstract: We show that Hamiltonian monodromy of an integrable two degrees of freedom system with a global circle action can be computed by applying Morse theory to the Hamiltonian of the system. Our proof is based on Takens's index theorem, which specifies how the energy-h Chern number changes when h passes a non-degenerate critical value, and a choice of admissible cycles in Fomenko-Zieschang theory. Connections of our result to some of the existing approaches to monodromy are discussed.

Review text

The paper considers two-degree of freedom integrable Hamiltonian systems. Hamiltonian monodromy is an obstruction to the existence of global action coordinates. For the systems with a global circle action, the paper proposes a new method to compute the Hamiltonian monodromy, based on Takens' index theorem. To apply the theorem, one considers a proper Morse function on the phase space of the Hamiltonian system (i.e., such that the preimages of compact sets are compact), given by the Hamiltonian or another first integral of the system and invariant under the circle action. Using the global circle action, each level set of the Morse function can be described as a circle bundle, and Takens' index theorem describes the Chern numbers of such bundles in the level sets near a non-degenerate critical value of the Morse function. The authors show how Takens' theorem can be used to compute the Hamiltonian monodromy for two-degree of freedom integrable systems, and provide an alternative proof of the geometric monodromy theorem. The paper also discusses the connections of the proposed method to other results and phenomena in the study of integrable Hamiltonian systems.

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