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Invariant characterization of Liouville metrics and polynomial integrals

Differential Geometry 2009-11-13 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

A criterion in terms of differential invariants for a metric on a surface to be Liouville is established. Moreover, in this paper we completely solve in invariant terms the local mobility problem of a 2D metric, considered by Darboux: How many quadratic in momenta integrals does the geodesic flow of a given metric possess? The method is also applied to recognition of other polynomial integrals of geodesic flows.

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@article{arxiv.0709.0423,
  title  = {Invariant characterization of Liouville metrics and polynomial integrals},
  author = {Boris Kruglikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.0423},
  year   = {2009}
}