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Smooth Lyapunov 1-forms

Dynamical Systems 2007-05-23 v1 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

We find conditions which guarantee that a given flow on a closed smooth manifold admits a smooth Lyapunov one-form lying in a prescribed de Rham cohomology class. These conditions are formulated in terms of Schwartzman's asymptotic cycles of the flow.

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@article{arxiv.math/0304137,
  title  = {Smooth Lyapunov 1-forms},
  author = {M. Farber and T. Kappeler and J. Latschev and E. Zehnder},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0304137},
  year   = {2007}
}

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11 pages, 1 figure