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Rodrigo P. Gomez
An Integrable Flow on a Family of Hilbert Grassmannians
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Published: |
August 27, 1996 |
Keywords: |
Symplectic geometry, Integrable Geodesic Flow |
Subject: |
Primary 53C22 Secondary 53C57 |
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Abstract
Various researchers have studied examples of infinite-dimensional
dynamical systems.
In most of the cases, the phase space consisted of a Hilbert or Banach space
or a
Frechet space of functions. In this article we propose to study a
dynamical system,
namely the geodesic flow, over more structurally complex manifolds, the
tangent
bundles of a family of Hilbert Grassmannians. Using the high degree of
symmetry
of the spaces and the methods of Thimm [9] and Ii and
Watanabe [3] we
prove that the geodesic flow is integrable. In the process we determine a
spectral
invariant á la Moser [5] which completely describes the
behavior of the geodesics of the Hilbert Grassmannians. As a result we
demonstrate the difference in complexity between the various ranked
Hilbert Grassmannians.
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Author information
Comprehensive Studies Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
gomez@umich.edu
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