Mathematics – Dynamical Systems
Scientific paper
2011-11-25
Mathematics
Dynamical Systems
39 pages, 1 figure
Scientific paper
Monotone lattice recurrence relations such as the Frenkel-Kontorova lattice, arise in Hamiltonian lattice mechanics as models for ferromagnetism and as discretization of elliptic PDEs. Mathematically, they are a multidimensional counterpart of monotone twist maps. They often admit a variational structure, so that the solutions are the stationary points of a formal action function. Classical Aubry-Mather theory establishes the existence of a large collection of solutions of any rotation vector. For irrational rotation vectors this is the well-known Aubry-Mather set. It consists of global minimizers and it may have gaps. In this paper, we study the gradient flow of the formal action function and we prove that every Aubry-Mather set can be interpolated by a continuous gradient-flow invariant family, the so-called "ghost circle". The existence of ghost circles is first proved for rational rotation vectors and Morse action functions. The main technical result is a compactness theorem for ghost circles, based on a parabolic Harnack inequality for the gradient flow, which implies the existence of ghost circles of arbitrary rotation vectors and for arbitrary actions. As a consequence, we can give a simple proof of the fact that when an Aubry-Mather set has a gap, then this gap must be ?parametrized by minimizers, or contain a non-minimizing solution.
Mramor Blaz
Rink Bob
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