Zoll and Tannery metrics from a superintegrable geodesic flow

DOI10.1007/S11005-014-0712-3MaRDI QIDQ464338zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Galliano Valent

Publication date 17 October 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.1793

zbMATH Keywords

closed geodesicsTannery metricstwo-dimensional closed manifoldsZoll metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25)

Abstract: We prove that for Matveev and Shevchishin superintegrable system, with a linear and a cubic integral, the metrics defined on S^2 and on Tannery's orbifold T^2 are either Zoll or Tannery metrics.

Review text

This paper is a continuation of [the author et al., J. Geom. Phys. 87, 461--481 (2015; Zbl 1310.37025)], and the subject matters are two-dimensional superintegrable geodesic flows. The geodesic flow for a Riemannian manifold can be regarded as a Hamiltonian flow on the cotangent bundle with the Hamiltonian \(\frac{1}{2} g^{ij} p_i p_j\), where the \(p_i\) are the momenta. The geodesic flow on a manifold of dimension two is called superintegrable if it has two more functionally independent first integrals in addition to the Hamiltonian. Matveev and Shevchishin constructed a family of superintegrable models, involving a linear and a cubic integral in term of the momenta \(p_i\). In [loc. cit.], explicit forms of these metrics on \(S^2\) or on its open sets are obtained. In this paper, using the canonical form for metrics whose geodesics are all closed, the above explicit metrics on \(S^2\) are demonstrated to be Zoll, that is, the geodesics are all closed and of the same length. Several other metrics from [loc. cit.] are shown to be defined on Tannery's orbifold and are shown have closed geodesics. The cubic integrals are also demonstrated explicitly in each case.

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