The contact property for symplectic magnetic fields on S^2

DOI10.1017/ETDS.2014.82zbMATH Open1343.37053arXiv1308.2128OpenAlexW3099451501MaRDI QIDQ2805054FDOQ2805054

Authors: Gabriele Benedetti 

Publication date: 9 May 2016

Published in: Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we give some positive and negative results about the contact property for the energy levels $Sigm{a}_c$ of a symplectic magnetic field on $S^2$. In the first part we focus on the case of the area form on a surface of revolution. We state a sufficient condition for an energy level to be of contact type and give an example where the contact property fails. If the magnetic curvature is positive, the dynamics and the action of invariant measures can be numerically computed. This hints at the conjecture that an energy level of a symplectic magnetic field with positive magnetic curvature should be of contact type. In the second part we show that, for small energies, there exists a convex hypersurface $N_c$ in $mathbb{C}^2$ and a covering map $p_c:N_{c}ightarrowSigm{a}_c$ such that the pull-back via $p_c$ of the characteristic distribution on $Sigm{a}_c$ is the standard characteristic distribution on $N_c$. As a corollary we prove that there are either two or infinitely many periodic orbits on $Sigm{a}_c$. The second alternative holds if there exists a contractible prime periodic orbit.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.2128

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zbMATH Keywords

symplectic reductionHamiltonian structureLiouville measure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contact systems (37J55) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10)

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