Integration of Geodesic Flows on Homogeneous Spaces: The Case of a Wild Lie Group

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 transformation in the space T ^* M based on constructing the canonical coordinates on the orbits of the coadjoint representation and on the simplectic sheets of the Poisson algebra of invariant functions. This algorithm is applicable to integrating geodesic flows on homogeneous spaces of a wild Lie group.     

Complete involutive algebras of functions on cotangent bundles of homogeneous spaces

Homogeneous spaces of all compact Lie groups admit Riemannian metrics with completely integrable geodesic flows by means of C –smooth integrals [9, 10]. The purpose of this paper is to give some constructions of complete involutive algebras of analytic functions, polynomial in velocities, on the (co)tangent bundles of homogeneous spaces of compact Lie groups. This allows us to obtain new integrable Riemannian and sub-Riemannian geodesic flows on various homogeneous spaces, such as Stiefel manifolds, flag manifolds and orbits of the adjoint actions of compact Lie groups. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 70H06, 37J35, 53D17, 53D25     

Hamiltonian reductions of free particles under polar actions of compact Lie groups

We investigate classical and quantum Hamiltonian reductions of free geodesic systems of complete Riemannian manifolds. We describe the reduced systems under the assumption that the underlying compact symmetry group acts in a polar manner in the sense that there exist regularly embedded, closed, connected submanifolds intersecting all orbits orthogonally in the configuration space. Hyperpolar actions on Lie groups and on symmetric spaces lead to families of integrable systems of the spin Calogero-Sutherland type. __________ Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 155, No. 1, pp. 161–176, April, 2008.     

Frobenius manifolds and central invariants for the Drinfeld-Sokolov bihamiltonian structures

The Drinfeld-Sokolov construction associates a hierarchy of bihamiltonian integrable systems with every untwisted affine Lie algebra. We compute the complete sets of invariants of the related bihamiltonian structures with respect to the group of Miura-type transformations.     

Nonholonomic LR Systems as Generalized Chaplygin Systems with an Invariant Measure and Flows on Homogeneous Spaces

We consider a class of dynamical systems on a compact Lie group G with a left-invariant metric and right-invariant nonholonomic constraints (so-called LR systems) and show that, under a generic condition on the constraints, such systems can be regarded as generalized Chaplygin systems on the principle bundle G \to Q = G/H, H being a Lie subgroup. In contrast to generic Chaplygin systems, the reductions of our LR systems onto the homogeneous space Q always possess an invariant measure. We study the case G = SO(n), when LR systems are ultidimensional generalizations of the Veselova problem of a nonholonomic rigid body motion which admit a reduction to systems with an invariant measure on the (co)tangent bundle of Stiefel varieties V(k, n) as the corresponding homogeneous spaces. For k = 1 and a special choice of the left-invariant metric on SO(n), we prove that after a time substitution the reduced system becomes an integrable Hamiltonian system describing a geodesic flow on the unit sphere S^n-1. This provides a first example of a nonholonomic system with more than two degrees of freedom for which the celebrated Chaplygin reducibility theorem is applicable for any dimension. In this case we also explicitly reconstruct the motion on the group SO(n).     

Variational construction of unbounded orbits in Lagrangian systems

We show the existence of unbounded orbits in perturbations of generic geodesic flow in T2 by a generic periodic potential. Different from previous work such as in Mather (1997), the initial values of the orbits obtained here are not required sufficiently large.     

Irreducible Lie-Yamaguti algebras

Lie-Yamaguti algebras (or generalized Lie triple systems) are binary-ternary algebras intimately related to reductive homogeneous spaces. The Lie-Yamaguti algebras which are irreducible as modules over their Lie inner derivation algebra are the algebraic counterpart of the isotropy irreducible homogeneous spaces.These systems will be shown to split into three disjoint types: adjoint type, non-simple type and generic type. The systems of the first two types will be classified and most of them will be shown to be related to a Generalized Tits Construction of Lie algebras.     

Ricci flow on homogeneous spaces with two isotropy summands

We consider the Ricci flow equation for invariant metrics on compact and connected homogeneous spaces whose isotropy representation decomposes into two irreducible inequivalent summands. By studying the corresponding dynamical system, we completely describe the behaviour of the homogeneous Ricci flow on this kind of spaces. Moreover, we investigate the existence of ancient solutions and relate this to the existence and non-existence of invariant Einstein metrics.     

On a class of symmetric CR manifolds

We study and classify a large class of minimal orbits in complex flag manifolds for the holomorphic action of a real Lie group. These orbits are all symmetric CR spaces for the restriction of a suitable class of Hermitian invariant metrics on the ambient flag manifold. As a particular case we obtain that the standard compact homogeneous CR manifolds associated with semisimple Levi-Tanaka algebras are symmetric CR-spaces.     

Irreducible Lie-Yamaguti algebras of generic type

Lie-Yamaguti algebras (or generalized Lie triple systems) are binary-ternary algebras intimately related to reductive homogeneous spaces. The Lie-Yamaguti algebras which are irreducible as modules over their inner derivation algebras are the algebraic counterparts of the isotropy irreducible homogeneous spaces.These systems splits into three disjoint types: adjoint type, non-simple type and generic type. The systems of the first two types were classified in a previous paper through a generalized Tits Construction of Lie algebras. In this paper, the Lie-Yamaguti algebras of generic type are classified by relating them to several other nonassociative algebraic systems: Lie and Jordan algebras and triple systems, Jordan pairs or Freudenthal triple systems.     

Quantization in Geometric Pluripotential Theory

The space of Kähler metrics, on the one hand, can be approximated by subspaces of algebraic metrics, while, on the other hand, it can also be enlarged to finite-energy spaces arising in pluripotential theory. The latter spaces are realized as metric completions of Finsler structures on the space of Kähler metrics. The former spaces are the finite-dimensional spaces of Fubini-Study metrics of Kähler quantization. The goal of this article is to draw a connection between the two. We show that the Finsler structures on the space of Kähler potentials can be quantized. More precisely, given a Kähler manifold polarized by an ample line bundle we endow the space of Hermitian metrics on powers of that line bundle with Finsler structures and show that the resulting path length metric spaces recover the corresponding metric completions of the Finsler structures on the space of Kähler potentials. This has a number of applications, among them a new Lidskii-type inequality on the space of Kähler metrics, a new approach to the rooftop envelopes and Pythagorean formulas of Kähler geometry, and approximation of finite-energy potentials, as well as geodesic segments by the corresponding smooth algebraic objects. © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Kähler geometry of the universal Teichmüller space and coadjoint orbits of the Virasoro group

The Kähler geometry of the universal Teichmüller space and related infinite-dimensional Kähler manifolds is studied. The universal Teichmüller space T may be realized as an open subset in the complex Banach space of holomorphic quadratic differentials in the unit disc. The classical Teichmüller spaces T(G), where G is a Fuchsian group, are contained in T as complex Kähler submanifolds. The homogeneous spaces Diff₊(S ¹)/Möb(S ¹) and Diff₊(S ¹)/S ¹ of the diffeomorphism group Diff₊(S ¹) of the unit circle are closely related to T. They are Kähler Frechet manifolds that can be realized as coadjoint orbits of the Virasoro group (and exhaust all coadjoint orbits of this group that have the Kähler structure).     

Algorithmic determination of infinite-dimensional symmetry groups for integrable systems in 1 + 1 dimensions

We present algorithms and describe CA-packages to compute the infinitesimal generators of infinite-dimensional symmetry groups for integrable PDEs (evolution equations) in one space and one time dimension. Here, integrable is meant in the sense that the vector field defining the equation is a member of the abelian part of some infinite-dimensional Virasoro algebra. The method of computation is completely different from the usual prolongation method, no determining equations are solved. Instead, all necessary generators of the finitely generated Virasoro algebra are computed from one given element by direct Lie algebra methods. The implementation of the algorithms in MuPAD is described. A sample session is included in which the recursion structures of the KdV and the Krichever-Novikov equations are computed.     

Projectively Equivalent Riemannian Spaces as Quasi-bi-Hamiltonian Systems

The class of Riemannian spaces admitting projectively, or geodesically, equivalent metrics is very closely related to a certain class of spaces for which the Hamilton–Jacobi equation for geodesics is separable. This fact is established, and its consequences explored, by showing that when a Riemannian space has a projectively equivalent metric its geodesic flow is a quasi-bi-Hamiltonian system. The existence of involutive first integrals of the geodesic flow, quadratic in the momenta, follows by a standard type of argument. When these integrals are independent they generate a Stäckel system.     

Continuation Theory for Contractions on Spaces with Two Vector-Valued Metrics

We develop a continuation theory for contractive maps on spaces with two vector-valued metrics. Applications are presented for systems of operator equations in Banach spaces and, in particular, for systems of abstract Hammerstein integral equations. The use of vector-valued metrics makes it possible for each equation of a system to have its own Lipschitz property, while the use of two such metrics makes it possible for the Lipschitz condition to be expressed with respect to an incomplete metric.     

New geometric examples of Anosov actions

We study a new class of Anosov actions (in the sense of Hirsch, Pugh and Shub) of reductive Lie groups, which are related to Riemannian symmetric spaces of non-compact type. The orbits of these actions can be identified with unions of parallel geodesics and the resulting orbit spaces are symplectic manifolds. For symmetric spaces of rank 1 all actions coincide with the geodesic flow.     

On the structure of geodesic orbit Riemannian spaces

The paper is devoted to the study of geodesic orbit Riemannian spaces that could be characterized by the property that any geodesic is an orbit of a 1-parameter group of isometries. In particular, we discuss some important totally geodesic submanifolds that inherit the property to be geodesic orbit. For a given geodesic orbit Riemannian space, we describe the structure of the nilradical and the radical of the Lie algebra of the isometry group. In the final part, we discuss some new tools to study geodesic orbit Riemannian spaces, related to compact Lie group representations with non-trivial principal isotropy algebras. We discuss also some new examples of geodesic orbit Riemannian spaces, new methods to obtain such examples, and some unsolved questions.