Solvability of the cohomological equation for regular vector fields on the plane

DOI10.1007/S10455-010-9231-3MaRDI QIDQ629922zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Roberto De Leo

Publication date 10 March 2011

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.3016

zbMATH Keywords

cohomological equationfoliations of the planeHamiltonian vector fields on the planelinear first-order PDEs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear first-order PDEs (35F05) Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12)

Abstract: We consider planar vector field without zeroes X and study the image of the associated Lie derivative operator LX acting on the space of smooth functions. We show that the cokernel of LX is infinite-dimensional as soon as X is not topologically conjugate to a constant vector field and that, if the topology of the integral trajectories of X is ``simple enough (e.g. if X is polynomial) then X is transversal to a Hamiltonian foliation. We use this fact to find a large explicit subalgebra of the image of LX and to build an embedding of R^2 into R^4 which rectifies X. Finally we use this embedding to characterize the functions in the image of LX.

Review text

The author studies the image of the Lie derivative \({\mathcal L}_\xi\) acting on smooth functions, for a planar vector field \(\xi\) without zeros. He proves in Theorem 1 that if the vector field \(\xi\) is not topologically conjugated to the constant vector field then \({\mathcal L}_\xi\) has an infinite-dimensional cokernel. This generalizes the results of \textit{S. P. Novikov} [Contemp. Math. 469, 271--287 (2008; Zbl 1156.58003)] and \textit{G. Forni} [Ann. Math. (2) 146, No.~2, 295--344 (1997; Zbl 0893.58037)] from compact surfaces to the plane. In Theorem 2, the author extends the results of \textit{J. L. Weiner} in [Pac. J. Math. 132, No.~1, 195--208 (1988; Zbl 0649.35017)] and shows that, under some assumptions regarding the integral curves of \(\xi\), the vector field is transversal to a Hamiltonian foliation. The results are explicitly used to obtain a subalgebra in the image of \({\mathcal L}_\xi\) and to construct an embedding of \(\mathbb R^2\) into \(\mathbb R^4\) that rectifies \(\xi\). This embedding is very useful for characterizing the function in the image of \({\mathcal L}_\xi\).

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