On the Conley decomposition of Mather sets

DOI10.4171/RMI/596MaRDI QIDQ971959zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Patrick Bernard

Publication date 17 May 2010

Published in Revista Matemática Iberoamericana (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.1593, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rmi/1266330119

zbMATH Keywords

action minimizationAubry setschain transitivityConley decompositionMather setsstatic classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Notions of recurrence and recurrent behavior in topological dynamical systems (37B20) Viscosity solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations in optimal control and differential games (49L25)

Abstract: In the context of Mather's theory of Lagrangian systems, we study the decomposition in chain-transitive classes of the Mather invariant sets. As an application, we prove, under appropriate hypotheses, the semi-continuity of the so-called Aubry set as a function of the Lagrangian.

Review text

This paper studies invariant sets in the context of Mather's theory of Lagrangian systems. The author considers two ways of describing the invariant sets. The first is to use a purely topological point of view in the style of Conley, and look at the transitive components of compact metric spaces with flows. Alternatively, one can study invariant sets via minimizing the action and creating decompositions into so-called static classes. The author aims to make explicit the connections between these two approaches and their respective decompositions. The author concludes that the topological decomposition is finer than the variational decomposition, and that the decompositions coincide for most -- but not all -- systems. As an application of his analysis, the author proves the semicontinuity of the Aubry set as a function of the Lagrangian -- under certain non-degeneracy conditions. Mather has provided a counterexample to show this does not hold in general.

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