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 Δ for each metric admits sufficiently many linear differential operators commuting with Δ. 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.
Citation:
V. S. Matveev, P. J. Topalov, “Geodesic equivalence of metrics as a particular case of integrability of geodesic flows”, TMF, 123:2 (2000), 285–293; Theoret. and Math. Phys., 123:2 (2000), 651–658
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