Mathematics – Symplectic Geometry
Scientific paper
2010-11-26
Mathematics
Symplectic Geometry
26 pages 1 figure
Scientific paper
Let $X$ be a Hamiltonian vector field defined on a symplectic manifold $(M,\omega)$, $g$ a nowhere vanishing smooth function defined on an open dense subset $M^0$ of $M$. We will say that the vector field $Y = gX$ is conformally Hamiltonian. We prove that when $X$ is complete, when $Y$ is Hamiltonian with respect to another symplectic form $\omega_2$ defined on $M^0$, and when another technical condition is satisfied, there exists a symplectic diffeomorphism from $(M^0,\omega_2)$ onto an open subset of $(M,\omega)$, equivariant with respect to the flows of the vector fields $Y$ on $M^0$ and $X$ on $M$. This result explains why the diffeomorphism of the phase space of the Kepler problem restricted to the negative (resp. positive) values of the energy function, onto an open subset of the cotangent bundle to a three-dimensional sphere (resp. two-sheeted hyperboloid), discovered by Gy\"orgyi (1968) [9], re-discovered by Ligon and Schaaf (1976) [15], whose properties were discussed by Cushman and Duistermaat (1997) [5], is a symplectic diffeomorphism. Infinitesimal symmetries of the Ke- pler problem are discussed, and it is shown that their space is a Lie algebroid with zero anchor map rather than a Lie algebra.
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