Topological contact dynamics. III: Uniqueness of the topological Hamiltonian and C^0-rigidity of the geodesic flow

DOI10.4310/JSG.2016.V14.N1.A1MaRDI QIDQ307989zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Stefan Müller, Peter Spaeth

Publication date 5 September 2016

Published in The Journal of Symplectic Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.6951

zbMATH Keywords

geodesic flowtopological contact Hamiltoniantopological contact isotopy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) Contact systems (37J55) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10)

Abstract: We prove that a topological contact isotopy uniquely defines a topological contact Hamiltonian. Combined with previous results from [MS11], this generalizes the classical one-to-one correspondence between smooth contact isotopies and their generating smooth contact Hamiltonians and conformal factors to the group of topological contact dynamical systems. Applications of this generalized correspondence include C^0-rigidity of smooth contact Hamiltonians, a transformation law for topological contact dynamical systems, and C^0-rigidity of the geodesic flows of Riemannian manifolds.

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