Dynamical Systems and Differential Forms. Low Dimensional Hamiltonian Systems

Abstract

The theory of differential forms began with a discovery of Poincare who found conservation laws of a new type for Hamiltonian systems - The Integral Invariants. Even in the absence of non-trivial integrals of motion, there exist invariant differential forms: a symplectic two-form, or a contact one-form for geodesic flows. Some invariant forms can be naturally considered as "forms on the quotient." As a space, this quotient may be very bad in the conventional topological sense. These considerations lead to an analog of the de Rham cohomology theory for manifolds carrying smooth dynamical system. The cohomology theory for quotients, called "basic cohomology" in the literature, appears naturally in our approach. We define also new exotic cohomology groups associated with the so-called cohomological equation in dynamical systems and find exact sequences connecting them with the cohomology of quotients. Explicit computations are performed for geodesic and horocycle flows of compact surfaces of constant negative curvature. Are these famous systems Hamiltonian for a 3D manifold with a Poisson structure? Below, we discuss exotic Poisson structures on 3-manifolds having complicated Anosov-type Casimir foliations. We prove that horocycle flows are Hamiltonian for such exotic structures. The geodesic flow is non-Hamiltonian in the 3D sense.