Magnetic rigidity of horocycle flows

DOI10.2140/PJM.2006.225.301zbMATH Open1116.37020arXivmath/0409528OpenAlexW2032427614MaRDI QIDQ2373553FDOQ2373553

Authors: Gabriel P. Paternain 

Publication date: 12 July 2007

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $M$ be a closed oriented surface endowed with a Riemannian metric $g$ and let $Omega$ be a 2-form. We show that the magnetic flow of the pair $(g,Omega)$ has zero asymptotic Maslov index and zero Liouville action if and only $g$ has constant Gaussian curvature, $Omega$ is a constant multiple of the area form of $g$ and the magnetic flow is a horocycle flow. This characterization of horocycle flows implies that if the magnetic flow of a pair $(g,Omega)$ is $C^1$-conjugate to the horocycle flow of a hyperbolic metric $$ then there exists a constant $a>0$, such that $ag$ and $$ are isometric and $a^{-1}Omega$ is, up to a sign, the area form of $g$. The characterization also implies that if a magnetic flow is Ma~n'e critical and uniquely ergodic it must be the horocycle flow. As a by-product we also obtain results on existence of closed magnetic geodesics for almost all energy levels in the case weakly exact magnetic fields on arbitrary manifolds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0409528

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zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian flowAubry-Mather theorymagnetic flowclosed magnetic geodesies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Periodic orbits of vector fields and flows (37C27) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25)

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