Reparametrizations of vector fields and their shift maps

Abstract: Let

M

be a smooth manifold,

F

be a smooth vector field on

M

, and

F_{t}

be the local flow of

F

. Denote by

S h (F)

the space of smooth maps

h : M o M

of the following form:

h (x) = F_{f (x)} (x)

, where

f : M o m a t h b b R

runs over all smooth functions on

M

which can be substituted into the flow

F_{t}

instead of time. This space often coincides with the identity component of the group of diffeomorphisms preserving orbits of

F

. In this note it is shown that

S h (F)

is not changed under reparametrizations and pushforwards of

F

. As an application it is proved that a vector field

F

without non-closed orbits can be reparametrized to induce a circle action on

M

if and only if there exists a smooth function

f : M o (0, + i n f t y)

such that for each non-singular point

x

of

M

, the value

f (x)

is an integer multiple of the period of

x

with respect to

F

.

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