Symplectic topology of Mañé’s critical values

Cieliebak, Kai¹ ; Frauenfelder, Urs² ; Paternain, Gabriel P³

¹ Mathematisches Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresienstr 39, 80333 München, Germany
² Department of Mathematics and Research Institute of Mathematics, Seoul National University, San56-1 Shinrim-dong Kwanak-gu, Seoul 151-747, Korea
³ Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WB, United Kingdom

Geometry & topology, Tome 14 (2010) no. 3, pp. 1765-1870.

Résumé

We study the dynamics and symplectic topology of energy hypersurfaces of mechanical Hamiltonians on twisted cotangent bundles. We pay particular attention to periodic orbits, displaceability, stability and the contact type property, and the changes that occur at the Mañé critical value $c$. Our main tool is Rabinowitz Floer homology. We show that it is defined for hypersurfaces that are either stable tame or virtually contact, and that it is invariant under homotopies in these classes. If the configuration space admits a metric of negative curvature, then Rabinowitz Floer homology does not vanish for energy levels $k>c$ and, as a consequence, these level sets are not displaceable. We provide a large class of examples in which Rabinowitz Floer homology is nonzero for energy levels $k>c$ but vanishes for $k<c$, so levels above and below $c$ cannot be connected by a stable tame homotopy. Moreover, we show that for strictly $1∕4$–pinched negative curvature and nonexact magnetic fields all sufficiently high energy levels are nonstable, provided that the dimension of the base manifold is even and different from two.

Détail

DOI : 10.2140/gt.2010.14.1765

Keywords: Mañé' critical value, magnetic field, Rabinowitz Floer homology, stable Hamiltonian structure

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