Integrable Geodesic Flows on Cones over Riemannian Manifolds
Differential Geometry
2026-02-09 v2
Abstract
In this paper we study the behavior of geodesics on cones over arbitrary -smooth closed Riemannian manifolds. We show that the geodesic flow on such cones admits first integrals whose values uniquely determine almost all geodesics except for radial geodesics; thus, the geodesic flow is superintegrable. Moreover, we prove that the geodesic flow restricted to the open dense subset of the cotangent bundle corresponding to all non-radial trajectories is Liouville--Arnold integrable. This investigation is inspired by our recent results on Birkhoff billiards inside cones over convex manifolds where similar results hold true.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2511.01566,
title = {Integrable Geodesic Flows on Cones over Riemannian Manifolds},
author = {Andrey E. Mironov and Siyao Yin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.01566},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
34 pages, 3 figures