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For a Lie groupoid $\mathcal{G}$ with Lie algebroid $A$, we realize the symplectic leaves of the Lie-Poisson structure on $A^*$ as orbits of the affine coadjoint action of the Lie groupoid $\mathcal{J}\mathcal{G}\ltimes T^*M$ on $A^*$,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-18 Honglei Lang , Zhangju Liu

In this paper we prove that if the geodesic flow of a {compact or non-compact} complete manifold without conjugate points is of the Anosov type, then the average of the integral of the sectional curvature along the geodesic is negative and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-04-17 Ítalo Melo , Sergio Romaña

To an ergodic, essentially free and measure-preserving action of a non-amenable Baumslag-Solitar group on a standard probability space, a flow is associated. The isomorphism class of the flow is shown to be an invariant of such actions of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-05 Yoshikata Kida

A geodesic orbit manifold is a complete Riemannian manifold all of whose geodesics are orbits of one-parameter groups of isometries. We give both a geometric and an algebraic characterization of geodesic orbit manifolds that are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-08 Carolyn S. Gordon , Yuriĭ G. Nikonorov

We prove that there exist periodic orbits on almost all compact regular energy levels of a Hamiltonian function defined on a twisted cotangent bundle over the two-sphere. As a corollary, given any Riemannian two-sphere and a magnetic field…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Gabriele Benedetti , Kai Zehmisch

By studying completely integrable torus actions on contact manifolds we prove a conjecture of Toth and Zelditch that toric integrable geodesic flows on tori must have flat metrics.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Eugene Lerman , Nadya Shirokova

Periodic geodesics on the modular surface correspond to periodic orbits of the geodesic flow in its unit tangent bundle $\mathrm{PSL}_2(\mathbb{Z})\backslash\mathrm{PSL}_2(\mathbb{R})$. The complement of any finite number of orbits is a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-05-19 Alex Brandts , Tali Pinsky , Lior Silberman

In this paper we study rigidity aspects of Zoll magnetic systems on closed surfaces. We characterize magnetic systems on surfaces of positive genus given by constant curvature metrics and constant magnetic functions as the only magnetic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Luca Asselle , Christian Lange

For $\mathcal{O}$ a hyperbolic orientable 2-orbifold of genus $g$ with at most $2g+6$ conic points, we prove that the geodesic flow on the unitary tangent bundle$\mathrm{T}^1\mathcal{O}$ admits a Birkhoff section whose genus is one.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Pierre Dehornoy

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

Our main is to study periodic orbits of linear and invariant flows on a real, connected Lie group. Since each linear flow $\varphi_t$ has a derivation associated $\mathcal{D}$, we show that the existence of periodic orbits of $\varphi_t$ is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-03-05 S. N. Stelmastchuk

Let $(M,g)$ be a closed Riemannian manifold and $\sigma$ be a closed 2-form on $M$ representing an integer cohomology class. In this paper, using symplectic reduction, we show how the problem of existence of closed magnetic geodesics for…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-04-07 Luca Asselle , Felix Schmäschke

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 a class of coadjoint orbits of the area preserving diffeomorphism group of the plane consisting of vortex loops, namely closed curves in the plane decorated with one-forms (vorticity densities) allowed to have zeros.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Ioana Ciuclea , Cornelia Vizman

We prove that the geodesic flow of a Kupka-Smale riemannian metric on a closed surface has homoclinic orbits for all of its hyperbolic closed geodesics.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Gonzalo Contreras , Fernando Oliveira

Geodesic orbit manifolds (or g.o. manifolds) are those Riemannian manifolds $(M,g)$ whose geodesics are integral curves of Killing vector fields. Equivalently, there exists a Lie group $G$ of isometries of $(M,g)$ such that any geodesic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-13 Andreas Arvanitoyeorgos , Nikolaos Panagiotis Souris , Marina Statha

We show that the geodesic flow and the exponential map of a $C^k$ submanifold of $\mathbb{R}^n$ with $k\geq 2$ are of class $C^{k-1}$.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Christian Lange

In this paper, we investigate left-invariant geodesic orbit metrics on connected simple Lie groups, where the metrics are formed by the structures of generalized flag manifolds. We prove that all these left-invariant geodesic orbit metrics…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-07 Huibin Chen , Zhiqi Chen , Joseph A. Wolf

We define a class of geometric flows on a complete K\"ahler manifold to unify some physical and mechanical models such as the motion equations of vortex filament, complex-valued mKdV equations, derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-05 Xiaowei Sun , Youde Wang

A Lie group $G$ naturally acts on its Lie algebra $\gg$, called the adjoint action. In this paper, we determine the orbit types of the compact exceptional Lie group $G_2$ in its Lie algebra $\gg_2$. As results, the group $G_2$ has four…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-11-02 Takashi Miyasaka