Magnetic Rigidity of Horocycle flows

dc.creatorPaternain, Gabriel P.
dc.date2004-09-27
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T05:12:38Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T05:12:38Z
dc.descriptionLet $M$ be a closed oriented surface endowed with a Riemannian metric $g$ and let $Ω$ be a 2-form. We show that the magnetic flow of the pair $(g,Ω)$ has zero asymptotic Maslov index and zero Liouville action if and only $g$ has constant Gaussian curvature, $Ω$ is a constant multiple of the area form of $g$ and the magnetic flow is a horocycle flow. This characterization of horocycle flows implies that if the magnetic flow of a pair $(g,Ω)$ is $C^1$-conjugate to the horocycle flow of a hyperbolic metric $\bar{g}$ then there exists a constant $a>0$, such that $ag$ and $\bar{g}$ are isometric and $a^{-1}Ω$ is, up to a sign, the area form of $g$. The characterization also implies that if a magnetic flow is Mañé critical and uniquely ergodic it must be the horocycle flow. As a by-product we also obtain results on existence of closed magnetic geodesics for almost all energy levels in the case weakly exact magnetic fields on arbitrary manifolds.
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0409528
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0409528
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/72648
dc.subjectDynamical Systems
dc.subjectDifferential Geometry
dc.titleMagnetic Rigidity of Horocycle flows
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