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Rigidity properties of Anosov optical hypersurfaces

Dynamical Systems 2007-05-23 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We consider an optical hypersurface Σ\Sigma in the cotangent bundle τ:TMM\tau:T^*M\to M of a closed manifold MM endowed with a twisted symplectic structure. We show that if the characteristic foliation of Σ\Sigma is Anosov, then a smooth 1-form θ\theta on MM is exact if and only τθ\tau^*\theta has zero integral over every closed characteristic of Σ\Sigma. This result is derived from a related theorem about magnetic flows which generalizes our work in \cite{DP}. Other rigidity issues are also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.math/0508316,
  title  = {Rigidity properties of Anosov optical hypersurfaces},
  author = {Nurlan S. Dairbekov and Gabriel P. Paternain},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0508316},
  year   = {2007}
}