The Ruelle Invariant And Convexity In Higher Dimensions

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Authors J. Chaidez, Oliver Edtmair

Publication date 2 May 2022

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of measure-preserving transformations (37A05) Relations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems with topology, geometry and differential geometry (symplectic geometry, Poisson geometry, etc.) (37J39) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10)

Abstract: We construct the Ruelle invariant of a volume preserving flow and a symplectic cocycle in any dimension and prove several properties. In the special case of the linearized Reeb flow on the boundary of a convex domain $X$ in $mathbb{R}^{2n}$, we prove that the Ruelle invariant $extRu(X)$, the period of the systole $c(X)$ and the volume $extvolX$ satisfy [ ext{Ru}(X) cdot c(X) le C(n) cdot ext{vol}{X}] Here $C(n)>0$ is an explicit constant dependent on $n$. As an application, we construct dynamically convex contact forms on $S^{2n-1}$ that are not convex, disproving the equivalence of convexity and dynamical convexity in every dimension.

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