Lagrangian systems on hyperbolic manifolds

DOI10.1017/S0143385799133893MaRDI QIDQ3836409zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christophe Golé, Philip Boyland

Publication date 30 January 2001

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9601212

zbMATH Keywords

Euler Lagrange flowgeodesic flow on hyperbolic manifoldsLagrangian dynamical systemsminimizersemiconjugate

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40)

Abstract: This paper gives two results that show that the dynamics of a time-periodic Lagrangian system on a hyperbolic manifold are at least as complicated as the geodesic flow of a hyperbolic metric. Given a hyperbolic geodesic in the Poincar'e ball, Theorem A asserts that there are minimizers of the lift of the Lagrangian system that are a bounded distance away and have a variety of approximate speeds. Theorem B gives the existence of a collection of compact invariant sets of the Euler-Lagrange flow that are semiconjugate to the geodesic flow of a hyperbolic metric. These results can be viewed as a generalization of the Aubry-Mather theory of twist maps and the Hedlund-Morse-Gromov theory of minimal geodesics on closed surfaces and hyperbolic manifolds.

Review text

The authors investigate time dependent Lagrangian dynamical systems on the tangent bundle \(TM\) of a closed hyperbolic manifold \(M\). These systems are required to be defined by a \(C^2\)-function \(L: TM\times S^1\to \mathbb{R}\) which is fibrewise strictly convex and superquadratic with respect to the hyperbolic norm on the fibres. It is also supposed that the Euler-Lagrange flow of \(L\) exists for all times. If \(L\) is such a function, then for any numbers \(a<b\) and distinct points \(x\), \(y\) in the universal cover \(\widetilde{M}\) of \(M\) one can find a curve \(\gamma: [a,b]\to \widetilde{M}\) with \(\gamma(a)= x\), \(\gamma(b)= y\) that minimizes the action of \(L\) among all curves on \([a,b]\) with the same endpoints. These minimizer define a subset \(\mu\subset TM\times S^1\). The authors show that this set \(\mu\) contains an infinite union of compact subsets \(X_i\) which are invariant under the Euler-Lagrange flow \(\Phi_t\) and such that \((X_i, \Phi_t)\) is semiconjugate to the geodesic flow \(g_t\) on \(M\). Moreover the lift to \(\widetilde {M}\) of a curve defined by an orbit in \(X_i\) is a \(k_i\)-quasigeodesic where \(k_i> 0\) tends to infinity with \(i\).

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