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The periodic orbit conjecture for steady Euler flows

Dynamical Systems 2021-05-26 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

The periodic orbit conjecture states that, on closed manifolds, the set of lengths of the orbits of a non-vanishing vector field all whose orbits are closed admits an upper bound. This conjecture is known to be false in general due to a counterexample by Sullivan. However, it is satisfied under the geometric condition of being geodesible. In this work, we use the recent characterization of Eulerisable flows (or more generally flows admitting a strongly adapted one-form) to prove that the conjecture remains true for this larger class of vector fields.

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@article{arxiv.2103.02481,
  title  = {The periodic orbit conjecture for steady Euler flows},
  author = {Robert Cardona},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.02481},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

12 pages, overall improvements, new title and new section 4

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