Closed orbits of a charge in a weakly exact magnetic field

DOI10.2140/PJM.2010.247.189zbMATH Open1246.37082arXiv0906.1192OpenAlexW3101494469MaRDI QIDQ600633FDOQ600633

Authors: Will J. Merry 

Publication date: 1 November 2010

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that for a weakly exact magnetic system on a closed connected Riemannian manifold, almost all energy levels contain a closed orbit. More precisely, we prove the following stronger statements. Let $(M,g)$ denote a closed connected Riemannian manifold and $sigma$ a weakly exact 2-form. Let $ph{i}_t$ denote the magnetic flow determined by $sigma$, and let $c$ denote the Mane critical value of the pair $(g,sigma)$. We prove that if $k>c$, then for every non-trivial free homotopy class of loops on $M$ there exists a closed orbit with energy $k$ whose projection to $M$ belongs to that free homotopy class. We also prove that for almost all $k<c$ there exists a closed orbit with energy $k$ whose projection to $M$ is contractible. In particular, when $c=infty$ this implies that almost every energy level has a contractible closed orbit. As a corollary we deduce that if $sigma$ is not exact and $M$ has an amenable fundamental group (which implies $c=infty$) then there exist contractible closed orbits on almost every energy level.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.1192

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zbMATH Keywords

periodic orbitsmagnetic flowtwisted geodesic flowMañé critical value

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Periodic and almost periodic solutions for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H12)

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