New York Journal of Mathematics
Volume 2 (1996) 69-85

  

Rodrigo P. Gomez

An Integrable Flow on a Family of Hilbert Grassmannians


Published: August 27, 1996
Keywords: Symplectic geometry, Integrable Geodesic Flow
Subject: Primary 53C22 Secondary 53C57

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.

Author information

Comprehensive Studies Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
gomez@umich.edu