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Integrable Hamiltonian flows with positive Lebesgue-measure entropy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2003

LEO T. BUTLER
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA (e-mail: lbutler@math.northwestern.edu)

Abstract

This paper shows that any symplectic diffeomorphism $\mathbf{F} :(\Sigma^{2n},\eta) \to (\Sigma^{2n},\eta)$ can be embedded as a subsystem of a Liouville-integrable Hamiltonian flow on some symplectic manifold. If F is real-analytic, then the flow can be chosen to be real-analytic, but it is Liouville integrable with smooth first integrals. Examples are constructed of integrable, volume-preserving Hamiltonian flows on Poisson manifolds whose metric entropy with respect to the volume form is positive. Completely integrable Hamiltonian flows on a symplectic manifold are constructed which have positive metric entropy with respect to an invariant probability measure that is absolutely continuous with respect to the canonical volume form.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2003 Cambridge University Press

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