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On finite quotient Aubry set for generic geodesic flows

Dynamical Systems 2020-05-07 v2

Abstract

We study the structure of the Mather and Aubry sets for the family of lagrangians given by the kinetic energy associated to a riemannian metric g g on a closed manifold M M. In this case the Euler-Lagrange flow is the geodesic flow of (M,g)(M,g). We prove that there exists a residual subset G \mathcal G of the set of all conformal metrics to gg, such that, if gG \overline g \in \mathcal G then the corresponding geodesic flow has a finitely many ergodic c-minimizing measures, for each non-trivial cohomology class cH1(M,R) c \in H^1(M,\mathbb{R}). This implies that, for any cH1(M,R) c \in H^1(M,\mathbb{R}), the quotient Aubry set for the cohomology class c has a finite number of elements for this particular family of lagrangian systems.

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@article{arxiv.1809.05461,
  title  = {On finite quotient Aubry set for generic geodesic flows},
  author = {Gonzalo Contreras and José Antônio G. Miranda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.05461},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

11 pages, added acknowledgment

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