Magnetic flows on sol-manifolds: Dynamical and symplectic aspects

DOI10.1007/S00220-008-0645-8MaRDI QIDQ2517962zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gabriel P. Paternain, Leo T. Butler

Publication date 12 January 2009

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.1938

zbMATH Keywords

Liouville entropymagnetic flowsol-manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05)

Abstract: We consider magnetic flows on compact quotients of the 3-dimensional solvable geometry Sol determined by the usual left-invariant metric and the distinguished monopole. We show that these flows have positive Liouville entropy and therefore are never completely integrable. This should be compared with the known fact that the underlying geodesic flow is completely integrable in spite of having positive topological entropy. We also show that for a large class of twisted cotangent bundles of solvable manifolds every compact set is displaceable.

Review text

Let \(Sol \) be the semidirect product of \({\mathbb R}^2\) with \({\mathbb R}\), having the coordinates \((y_0,y_1,u)\) and multiplication \((y_0,y_1,u)(y'_0,y'_1,u')=(y_0+e^uy'_0,y_1+e^{-u}y'_1, u+u')\). If one denotes by \(p_0,p_1,p_u\) the corresponding momenta then the functions \(\alpha _0=e^up_0, \alpha _1=e^{-u}p_1, v=p_u\) are left-invariant on \(T^*Sol\) yielding the \textit{magnetic} Hamiltonian \(2H=\alpha ^2_0+\alpha ^2_1+v^2\). \(Sol\) admits cocompact lattices \(\Delta \) and the closed 3-manifold \(\Sigma=\Delta \backslash Sol\) is a 2-torus bundle over the circle. The manifold \(\Sigma \) has a distinguished \textit{monopole} i.e. a closed non-exact 2-form given by \(\Omega =dy_0\wedge dy_1\). An important result of this paper is that magnetic flows determined by \(H\) and \(\Omega \) have positive Liouville entropy and then are never completely integrable. Another remarkable result is that for a large class of twisted cotangent bundles of solvable manifolds every compact set is diplaceable.

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