Weak KAM for commuting Hamiltonians
Abstract
For two commuting Tonelli Hamiltonians, we recover the commutation of the Lax-Oleinik semi-groups, a result of Barles and Tourin ([BT01]), using a direct geometrical method (Stoke's theorem). We also obtain a "generalization" of a theorem of Maderna ([Mad02]). More precisely, we prove that if the phase space is the cotangent of a compact manifold then the weak KAM solutions (or viscosity solutions of the critical stationary Hamilton-Jacobi equation) for G and for H are the same. As a corrolary we obtain the equality of the Aubry sets, of the Peierls barrier and of flat parts of Mather's functions. This is also related to works of Sorrentino ([Sor09]) and Bernard ([Ber07b]).
Cite
@article{arxiv.0911.3739,
title = {Weak KAM for commuting Hamiltonians},
author = {Maxime Zavidovique},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.3739},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
23 pages, accepted for publication in NonLinearity (january 29th 2010). Minor corrections, fifth part added on Mather's $\alpha$ function (or effective Hamiltonian)