No periodic geodesics in jet space

DOI10.2140/PJM.2023.322.11MaRDI QIDQ6043339zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Alejandro Bravo-Doddoli

Publication date 5 May 2023

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.16178

zbMATH Keywords

sub-Riemannian geometryCarnot groupHamilton-Jacobiintegrable systemjet spaceGoursat distributionperiodic geodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Periodic solutions to PDEs (35B10) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) PDEs on Heisenberg groups, Lie groups, Carnot groups, etc. (35R03) Jets in global analysis (58A20) Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70Hxx)

Abstract: The $J^k$ space of $k$-jets of a real function of one real variable $x$ admits the structure of a sub-Riemannian manifold, which then has an associated Hamiltonian geodesic flow, and it is integrable. As in any Hamiltonian flow, a natural question is the existence of periodic solutions. Does $J^k$ have periodic geodesics? This study will find the action-angle coordinates in $T^{\ast }{J}^k$ for the geodesic flow and demonstrate that geodesics in $J^k$ are never periodic.

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