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TMF, 2000 Volume 123, Number 2, Pages 285–293 (Mi tmf602)

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Geodesic equivalence of metrics as a particular case of integrability of geodesic flows

V. S. Matveeva, P. J. Topalovb

a Chelyabinsk State University
b Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

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.

DOI: 10.4213/tmf602


 English version:
Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 2000, 123:2, 651–658

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