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Image of a shift map along the orbits of a flow

Dynamical Systems 2015-12-25 v3 Differential Geometry

Abstract

Let (Ft)(F_t) be a smooth flow on a smooth manifold MM and h:MMh:M\to M be a smooth orbit preserving map. The following problem is studied: suppose that for every point zz of MM there exists a germ of a smooth function fzf_z at zz such that near zz we have that h(x)=Ffz(x)(x)h(x)=F_{f_z(x)}(x). Can the functions (fz)(f_z) be glued together to give a smooth function on all of MM? This question is closely related to reparametrizations of flows. We describe a large class of flows for which the above problem can be resolved, and show that they have the following property: any smooth flow (Gt)(G_t) whose orbits coincides with the ones of (Ft)(F_t) is obtained from (Ft)(F_t) by smooth reparametrization of time. The proof of our principal statement uses results of D. Hoffman and L. N. Mann about diameters of effective actions of Lie grous of Riemannian manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.0902.2418,
  title  = {Image of a shift map along the orbits of a flow},
  author = {Sergiy Maksymenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.2418},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Version 2. 39 pages, 5 figures. The text of the paper is essentially rewritten. All the exposition is clarified