Abstract:
We consider the recently found connection between geodesically equivalent metrics and integrable geodesic flows. If two different metrics on a manifold have the same geodesics, then the geodesic flows of these metrics admit sufficiently many integrals (of a special form) in involution, and vice versa. The quantum version of this result is also true: if two metrics on one manifold have the same geodesics, then the Beltrami–Laplace operator $\Delta$ for each metric admits sufficiently many linear differential operators commuting with $\Delta$. This implies that the topology of a manifold with two different metrics with the same geodesics must be sufficiently simple. We also have that the nonproportionality of the metrics at a point implies the nonproportionality of the metrics at almost all points.