Regularity of weak foliations for thermostats

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/20/1/006zbMATH Open1120.37018arXivmath/0608033OpenAlexW2068678353MaRDI QIDQ5296502FDOQ5296502

Authors: Gabriel P. Paternain 

Publication date: 1 August 2007

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $M$ be a closed oriented surface endowed with a Riemannian metric $g$. We consider the flow $phi$ determined by the motion of a particle under the influence of a magnetic field $Omega$ and a thermostat with external field $$. We show that if $phi$ is Anosov, then it has weak stable and unstable foliations of class $C^{1,1}$ if and only if the external field $$ has a global potential $U$, $g_1:=e^{-2U}g$ has constant curvature and $e^{-U}Omega$ is a constant multiple of the area form of $g_1$. We also give necessary and sufficient conditions for just one of the weak foliations to be of class $C^{1,1}$ and we show that the {it combined} effect of a thermostat and a magnetic field can produce an Anosov flow with a weak stable foliation of class $C^{infty}$ and a weak unstable foliation which is {it not} $C^{1,1}$. Finally we study Anosov thermostats depending quadratically on the velocity and we characterize those with smooth weak foliations. In particular, we show that quasi-fuchsian flows as defined by Ghys in cite{Ghy1} can arise in this fashion.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0608033

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zbMATH Keywords

magnetic fieldmotion of a particleAnosov thermostatsAsonov flowquasi-Fuchsian flowsweak stable and unstable foliations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85) Uniformly hyperbolic systems (expanding, Anosov, Axiom A, etc.) (37D20) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40)

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