# American Institue of Mathematical Sciences

2014, 34(5): 1873-1878. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2014.34.1873

## A note on integrable mechanical systems on surfaces

 1 Department of Mathematics, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, 48859, United States

Received  April 2013 Revised  July 2013 Published  October 2013

Let $\mathfrak{S}$ be a compact, connected surface and $H \in C^2(T^* \mathfrak{S})$ a Tonelli Hamiltonian. This note extends V. V. Kozlov's result on the Euler characteristic of $\mathfrak{S}$ when $H$ is real-analytically integrable, using a definition of topologically-tame integrability called semisimplicity. Theorem: If $H$ is $2$-semisimple, then $\mathfrak{S}$ has non-negative Euler characteristic; if $H$ is $1$-semisimple, then $\mathfrak{S}$ has positive Euler characteristic.
Citation: Leo T. Butler. A note on integrable mechanical systems on surfaces. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2014, 34 (5) : 1873-1878. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2014.34.1873
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##### References:
 [1] V. I. Arnol'd, Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics,, Translated from the 1974 Russian original by K. Vogtmann and A. Weinstein. Corrected reprint of the second (1989) edition. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, (1989). [2] M. Bialy, Integrable geodesic flows on surfaces,, Geom. Funct. Anal., 20 (2010), 357. doi: 10.1007/s00039-010-0069-4. [3] A. V. Bolsinov and B. Jovanović, Complete involutive algebras of functions on cotangent bundles of homogeneous spaces,, Math. Z., 246 (2004), 213. doi: 10.1007/s00209-003-0596-x. [4] L. T. Butler, Invariant fibrations of geodesic flows,, Topology, 44 (2005), 769. doi: 10.1016/j.top.2005.01.004. [5] _______, An optical Hamiltonian and obstructions to integrability,, Nonlinearity, 19 (2006), 2123. doi: 10.1088/0951-7715/19/9/008. [6] _______, A generalization of Kozlov's theorem on integrable mechanical systems on surfaces,, Preprint , (2012), 1. [7] P. Dazord and T. Delzant, Le problème général des variables actions-angles,, J. Differential Geom., 26 (1987), 223. [8] E. Glasmachers and G. Knieper, Characterization of geodesic flows on $T^2$ with and without positive topological entropy,, Geom. Funct. Anal., 20 (2010), 1259. doi: 10.1007/s00039-010-0087-2. [9] _______, Minimal geodesic foliation on $T^2$ in case of vanishing topological entropy,, J. Topol. Anal., 3 (2011), 511. doi: 10.1142/S1793525311000623. [10] V. V. Kozlov, Topological obstacles to the integrability of natural mechanical systems,, Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 249 (1979), 1299. [11] ______, Symmetries, Topology and Resonances in Hamiltonian Mechanics,, Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete (3) [Results in Mathematics and Related Areas (3)], (1996). [12] Y. Long, Collection of problems proposed at International Conference on Variational Methods,, Front. Math. China, 3 (2008), 259. doi: 10.1007/s11464-008-0017-x. [13] N. N. Nehorošev, Action-angle variables, and their generalizations,, Trudy Moskov. Mat. Obšč., 26 (1972), 181. [14] I. A. Taĭmanov, Topological obstructions to the integrability of geodesic flows on nonsimply connected manifolds,, Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR Ser. Mat., 51 (1987), 429.
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