Magnetic rigidity of horocycle flows

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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 C1-conjugate to the horocycle flow of a hyperbolic metric then there exists a constant a>0, such that ag and are isometric and a1Omega 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.




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