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Infinitely many Brake orbits of Tonelli Hamiltonian systems on the cotangent bundle

Dynamical Systems 2023-02-21 v1 Classical Analysis and ODEs Functional Analysis Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We prove that on the twisted cotangent bundle of a closed manifold with an exact magnetic form, a Hamiltonian system of a time-dependent Tonelli Hamiltonian function possesses infinitely many brake orbits. More precisely, by applying Legendre transform we show that there are infinitely many symmetric orbits of the dual Euler-Lagrange system on the configuration space. This result contains an assertion for the existence of infinitely many symmetric orbits of Tonelli Euler-Lagrange systems given by G. Lu at the end of [Lu09a, Remark 6.1]. In this paper, we will present a complete proof of this assertion.

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@article{arxiv.2302.09472,
  title  = {Infinitely many Brake orbits of Tonelli Hamiltonian systems on the cotangent bundle},
  author = {Duanzhi Zhang and Zhihao Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.09472},
  year   = {2023}
}