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We construct differential invariants that vanish if and only if the geodesic flow of a 2-dimensional metric admits an integral of 3rd degree in momenta with a given Birkhoff-Kolokoltsov 3-codifferential.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-22 Vladimir S. Matveev , Vsevolod V. Shevchishin

We study magnetic geodesic flows invariant under rotations on the 2-sphere. The dynamical system is given by a generic pair of functions $(f,\Lambda)$ in one variable. Topology of the Liouville fibration of the given integrable system near…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Ivan F. Kobtsev , Elena A. Kudryavtseva

We study Riemannian metrics on surfaces whose geodesic flows are superintegrable with one integral linear in momenta and one integral quartic in momenta. The main results of the work are local description of such metrics in terms of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-05-29 Pavel Novichkov

We prove a recent conjecture of Dragovic et al arXiv2504.20515 stating that the magnetic geodesic flow on the standard sphere $S^n\subset \mathbb R^{n+1}$ whose magnetic 2-form is the restriction of a constant 2-form from $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Alexey V. Bolsinov , Andrey Yu. Konyaev , Vladimir S. Matveev

We consider magnetic geodesic flows of the normal metrics on a class of homogeneous spaces, in particular (co)adjoint orbits of compact Lie groups. We give the proof of the non-commutative integrability of flows and show, in addition, for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-12-23 Alexey V. Bolsinov , Bozidar Jovanovic

For any toric automorphism with only real eigenvalues a Riemannian metric with an integrable geodesic flow on the suspension of this automorphism is constructed. A qualitative analysis of such a flow on a three-solvmanifold constructed by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. V. Bolsinov , I. A. Taimanov

In this survey article we gather classical as well as recent results on minimal geodesics of Riemannian or Finsler metrics, giving special attention to the two-dimensional case. Moreover, we present open problems together with some first…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-01-26 Jan Philipp Schröder

In this paper we study some aspects of integrable magnetic systems on the two-torus. On the one hand, we construct the first non-trivial examples with the property that all magnetic geodesics with unit speed are closed. On the other hand,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Luca Asselle , Gabriele Benedetti

We prove that a surface carries a hexagonal 3-web of geodesics if and only if the geodesic flow on the surface admits a cubic first integral and show that the system of partial differential equations, governing metrics on such surfaces, is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Sergey I. Agafonov

In this note we give a criterion for the existence of a fractional-linear integral for a geodesic flow on a Riemannian surface and explain that modulo M\"obius transformations the moduli space of such local integrals (if nonempty) is either…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Boris Kruglikov

We obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for the integrability in quadratures of geodesic flows on homogeneous spaces $M$ with invariant and central metrics. The proposed integration algorithm consists in using a special canonical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Magazev , I. V. Shirokov

We consider the problem on the existence of two dimensional superintegrable systems in the presence of a magnetic field in the two dimensional Euclidean space. We assume the existence of two integrals of motion, besides the Hamiltonian,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Tatiana Ekelchik , Antonella Marchesiello

We describe all pseudo-Riemannian metrics on closed surfaces whose geodesic flows admit nontrivial integrals quadratic in momenta. As an application, we solve the Beltrami problem on closed surfaces and prove the nonexistence of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-10-25 Vladimir S. Matveev

The problem of description of superintegrable systems (i.e., systems with closed trajectories in a certain domain) in the class of rotationally symmetric natural mechanical systems goes back to Bertrand and Darboux. We describe all…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-12-06 Elena A. Kudryavtseva , Sergey A. Podlipaev

We describe a class of completely integrable $G$-invariant magnetic geodesic flows on (co)adjoint orbits of a compact connected Lie group $G$ with magnetic field given by the Kirillov-Konstant 2-form.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexey V. Bolsinov , Bozidar Jovanovic

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relationship between commutative and non-commutative integrability of Hamiltonian systems and to construct new examples of integrable geodesic flows on Riemannian manifolds. In particular, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexey V. Bolsinov , Bozidar Jovanovic

We completely integrate the magnetic geodesic flow on a flat two-torus with the magnetic field $F = \cos (x) dx \wedge dy$ and describe all contractible periodic magnetic geodesics. It is shown that there are no such geodesics for energy $E…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-02-02 I. A. Taimanov

We introduce and study the Chaplygin systems with gyroscopic forces. This natural class of nonholonomic systems has not been treated before. We put a special emphasis on the important subclass of such systems with magnetic forces. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-03-20 Vladimir Dragovic , Borislav Gajic , Bozidar Jovanovic

This paper is a review on recently found connection between geodesically equivalent metrics and integrable geodesic flows. Suppose two different metrics on one manifold have the same geodesics. We show that then the geodesic flows of these…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-08 Vladimir S. Matveev , Petar J. Topalov

In the following we study the qualitative properties of solutions to the geodesic flow induced by a higher order two-component Camassa-Holm system. In particular, criteria to ensure the existence of temporally global solutions are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-28 Joachim Escher , Tony Lyons