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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 C3C^3-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.

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@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}
}

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34 pages, 3 figures

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