Related papers: On Aubry sets and Mather's action functional

We review the author's results on Mather's $\beta$ function : non-strict convexity of $\beta$ when the configuration space has dimension two, link between the size of the Aubry set and the differentiability of $\beta$, correlation between…

We prove that if a time-periodic Tonelli Lagrangian on a closed manifold $M$ satisfies a strong version of the Differentiability Problem for Mather's $\beta$-function, then the Legendre transforms of rational homology classes are dense in…

Let L be a time-periodic Lagrangian on a two-torus. Then the beta-function of L is differentiable at least in k directions at any k-irrational homology class, for k= 0, 1, 2.

We prove the differentiability of $\beta $ of Mather function on all homology classes corresponding to rotation vectors of measures whose supports are contained in a Lipschitz Lagrangian absorbing graph, invariant by Tonelli Hamiltonians.…

If the $\beta$-function of a time-periodic Lagrangian on a manifold $M$ has a vertex at a $k$-irrational homology class $h$, then $2k \leq \dim M$. Furthermore if $\dim M =2$ $h$ is rational.

In the context of Mather's theory of Lagrangian systems, we study the decomposition in chain-transitive classes of the Mather invariant sets. As an application, we prove, under appropriate hypotheses, the semi-continuity of the so-called…

If L is a Tonelli Lagrangian defined on the tangent bundle of a compact and connected manifold whose dimension is at least 2, we associate to L the tiered Aubry set and the tiered Mane set (defined in the article). We prove that the tiered…

In this article we study the differentiability of Mather's $\beta$-function on closed surfaces and its relation to the integrability of the system.

We consider Lagrangian submanifolds lying on a fiberwise strictly convex hypersurface in some cotangent bundle or, respectively, in the domain bounded by such a hypersurface. We establish a new boundary rigidity phenomenon, saying that…

We consider the problem of constructing an action functional for physical systems whose classical equations of motion cannot be directly identified with Euler-Lagrange equations for an action principle. Two ways of action principle…

We introduce a version of Aubry-Mather theory for the length functional of causal curves in compact Lorentzian manifolds. Results include the existence of maximal invariant measures, calibrations and calibrated curves. We prove two versions…

We completely solve ergodic optimization of a full shift with an uncountable alphabet $[0,1]$, which is one of the most well-known examples of infinite dimensional dynamical systems with positive mean dimension (and thus with infinite…

We conclude our analysis of bubble divergences in the flat spinfoam model. In [arXiv:1008.1476] we showed that the divergence degree of an arbitrary two-complex Gamma can be evaluated exactly by means of twisted cohomology. Here, we…

Aubry-Mather is traditionally concerned with Tonelli Hamiltonian (convex and super-linear). In \cite{Vi,MVZ}, Mather's $\alpha$ function is recovered from the homogenization of symplectic capacities. This allows the authors to extend the…

We establish a connection between the Aubry-Mather theory of invariant sets of a 1D dynamical system described by a Lagrangian with potential periodic in space and time, on the one hand, and idempotent spectral theory of the Bellman…

With the variational method introduced by J Mather, we construct a mechanical Hamiltonian system whose Alpha function has a flat F and is non-differentiable at the boundary of F. In the case of two degrees of freedom, we prove this…

The partition function of an N=2 gauge theory in the Omega-background satisfies, for generic value of the parameter beta=-eps_1/eps_2, the, in general extended, but otherwise beta-independent, holomorphic anomaly equation of special…

This article provides a definition of a subdifferential for continuous functions based on homological considerations. We show that it satisfies all the requirement for a good notion of subdifferential. Moreover, we prove sublinearity, a…

Motivated by the integral representation of the Euler Beta function, we introduce its Cauchy siblings and investigate some of their properties. Two of these newly introduced functions happen to coincide with some classical means, such as…

We study the geometric significance of Leinster's magnitude invariant. For closed manifolds we find a precise relation with Brylinski's beta function and therefore with classical invariants of knots and submanifolds. In the special case of…