The Lagrangian Conley conjecture

DOI10.4171/CMH/222MaRDI QIDQ620544zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Marco Mazzucchelli

Publication date 19 January 2011

Published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.2108

zbMATH Keywords

Conley conjectureLagrangian dynamicsMorse theoryperiodic orbitsTonelli HamiltonianTonelli Lagrangian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05)

Abstract: We prove a Lagrangian analogue of the Conley conjecture: given a 1-periodic Tonelli Lagrangian with global flow on a closed configuration space, the associated Euler-Lagrange system has infinitely many periodic solutions. More precisely, we show that there exist infinitely many contractible integer periodic solutions with a priori bounded mean action and either infinitely many of them are 1-periodic or they have unbounded period.

Review text

The main result of this paper is contained in Theorem 1.1 and it consists in the following Lagrangian analogue of the Conley conjecture: Let \(M\) be a smooth closed manifold, \(\mathcal{L}:{\mathbb{R}}/{\mathbb{Z}}\times TM \rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) a smooth \(1\)-periodic Tonelli Lagrangian with global flow and \(a\in \mathbb{R}\) a constant greater than \[ \max_{q\in M}\{\int_{0}^{1}\mathcal{L}(t,q,0)dt\}. \] Assume that only finitely many contractible \(1\)-periodic solutions of the Euler-Lagrange system of \(\mathcal{L}\) have action less than \(a\). Then, for each prime number \(p\), the Euler-Lagrange system of \(\mathcal{L}\) admits infinitely many contractible periodic solutions with period that is a power of \(p\) and mean action less than \(a\). The author proves this result by using a Morse theoretic argument inspired by the paper of \textit{Y. Long} [Math. Z. 233, No. 3, 443--470 (2000; Zbl 0984.37074)]. An interesting corollary is the following: If \(M\) is a smooth closed manifold and \(\mathcal{H}:{\mathbb{R}}/{\mathbb{Z}}\times T^{*}M \rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) a \(1\)-periodic Tonelli Hamiltonian with global flow \(\Phi _{\mathcal{H}}^t\), then the Hamiltonian diffeomorphism \(\Phi _{\mathcal{H}}^1\) has infinitely periodic orbits.

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