On the rigidity of magnetic systems with the same magnetic geodesics

We study the analogue for magnetic flows of the classical question of when two different metrics on the same manifold share geodesics, which are the same up to reparametrization.

     

On the existence of closed magnetic geodesics via symplectic reduction

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 the magnetic flow of the pair \((g,\sigma )\) can be interpreted as a critical point problem for a Rabinowitz-type action functional defined on the cotangent bundle \(T^*E\) of a suitable \(S^1\)-bundle E over M or, equivalently, as a critical point problem for a Lagrangian-type action functional defined on the free loopspace of E. We thenstudy the relation between the stability property of energy hypersurfacesin \((T^*M,dp\wedge dq+\pi ^*\sigma )\) and of the corresponding codimension2 coisotropic submanifolds in \((T^*E,dp\wedge dq)\) arising via symplecticreduction. Finally, we reprove the main result of Asselle and Benedetti (J Topol Anal 8(3):545–570, 2016) in this setting.     

Periodic magnetic geodesics on Heisenberg manifolds

Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry - We study the dynamics of magnetic flows on Heisenberg groups, investigating the extent to which properties of the underlying Riemannian geometry are...     

On the two-point boundary-value problem for equations of geodesics

For equations of “geodesic spray” type with continuous coefficients on a complete Riemannian manifold, some interrelations between certain geometric characteristics, the distance between points, and the norm of the right-hand side that guarantee the solvability of the boundary-value problem are found. __________ Translated from Fundamentalnaya i Prikladnaya Matematika, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 65–70, 2005.     

On the convergence of a fourth order evolution equation to the Allen-Cahn equation

We construct special sequences of solutions to a fourth order nonlinear parabolic equation of Cahn-Hilliard/Allen-Cahn type, converging to the second order Allen-Cahn equation. We consider the evolution equation without boundary, as well as the stationary case on domains with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The proofs exploit the equivalence of the fourth order equation with a system of two second order elliptic equations with “good signs”.     

On the invariance of a boundary-value problem for a nonlinear evolution equation

We obtain an invariance group for one boundary-value problem in the physics of the sea. Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 50, No. 9, pp. 1281–1283, September, 1998.     

On variable stepsize Runge-Kutta approximations of a Cauchy problem for the evolution equation

We consider a Cauchy problem for the sectorial evolution equation with generally variable operator in a Banach space. Variable stepsize discretizations of this problem by means of a strongly A(φ)-stable Runge-Kutta method are studied. The stability and error estimates of the discrete solutions are derived for wider families of nonuniform grids than quasiuniform ones (in particular, if the operator in question is constant or Lipschitz-continuous, for arbitrary grids).     

Stationary Harry-Dym's equation and its relation with geodesics on ellipsoid

Harry-Dym's equation (HD) is well-known for its cusp soliton solutions. In this paper, relations are revealed between HD and a completely integrable Hamiltonian system in Liouville sense given by

On a singular evolution equation in Banach spaces

We study the differential equation tu′(t) + Au(t) = f(t), 0 < t < ∞, in Banach spaces. We obtain existence and uniqueness theorems for the solutions as well as regularity properties in suitable interpolation spaces.     

On the geometry of spaces of oriented geodesics

Let M be either a simply connected pseudo-Riemannian space of constant curvature or a rank one Riemannian symmetric space, and consider the space L(M) of oriented geodesics of M. The space L(M) is a smooth homogeneous manifold and in this paper we describe all invariant symplectic structures, (para)complex structures, pseudo-Riemannian metrics and (para)Kähler structure on L(M).     

Asymptotic evolution for the semiclassical nonlinear Schrödinger equation in presence of electric and magnetic fields

In this paper we study the semiclassical limit for the solutions of a subcritical focusing NLS with electric and magnetic potentials. We consider in particular the Cauchy problem for initial data close to solitons and show that, when the Planck constant goes to zero, the motion shadows that of a classical particle. Several works were devoted to the case of standing waves: differently from these we show that, in the dynamic version, the Lorentz force appears crucially.     

Minimal heteroclinic geodesics for the n-torus

This paper gives an extension of earlier work of Morse and of Hedlund on minimal heteroclinic geodesics for to the case of provided that an additional geometrical condition is satisfied. It also gives lower bounds on the number of such geodesics.