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A connecting theorem for geodesic flows on the 2-torus

Dynamical Systems 2021-02-08 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We use a result of J. Mather on the existence of connecting orbits for compositions of monotone twist maps of the cylinder to prove the existence of connecting geodesics on the unit tangent bundle ST2ST^2 of the 2-torus in regions without invariant tori.

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@article{arxiv.2102.00470,
  title  = {A connecting theorem for geodesic flows on the 2-torus},
  author = {Stefan Klempnauer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.00470},
  year   = {2021}
}
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