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

DOI10.4310/JSG.2016.V14.N1.A1zbMATH Open1350.53109arXiv1305.6951MaRDI QIDQ307989FDOQ307989

Authors: Stefan Müller, Peter Spaeth 

Publication date: 5 September 2016

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

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.

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

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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)

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• Uniqueness of generating Hamiltonians for topological Hamiltonian flows
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