Stability of Anosov Hamiltonian structures

DOI10.1142/S1793525310000434MaRDI QIDQ3069522zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Will J. Merry, Gabriel P. Paternain

Publication date 26 January 2011

Published in Journal of Topology and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.3969

zbMATH Keywords

Anosov flowsmagnetic flowsstable Hamiltonian structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Uniformly hyperbolic systems (expanding, Anosov, Axiom A, etc.) (37D20) Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05)

Abstract: Consider the tangent bundle of a Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ of dimension $ngeq3$ admitting a metric of negative curvature (not necessarily equal to $g$) endowed with a twisted symplectic structure defined by a closed 2-form on $M$. We consider the Hamiltonian flow generated (with respect to that symplectic structure) by the standard kinetic energy Hamiltonian, and we consider a compact regular energy level $Sigm{a}_k:=H^{-1}(k)$ of $H$. Suppose $Sigm{a}_k$ is an Anosov energy level. We prove that if $n$ is odd, then if the Hamiltonian flow restricted to $Sigm{a}_k$ is Anosov with $C^1$ weak bundles then the Hamiltonian structure $(Sigm{a}_k$ is stable if and only if it is contact. If $n$ is even and in addition the flow is assumed to be 1/2-pinched then the same conclusion holds. As a corollary we deduce that if $g$ is negatively curved, strictly 1/4-pinched and the 2-form defining the twisted symplectic structure is not exact then the Hamiltonian structure $(Sigm{a}_k$ is never stable for all sufficiently large $k$.

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