Lagrangian Graphs, Minimizing Measures and Mañé's Critical Values
Lagrangian Graphs, Minimizing Measures and Mañé's Critical Values
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10.1007/s000390050074
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1998-11
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G. Contreras;R. Iturriaga;G. Paternain;M. Paternain
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作者:
G. Contreras;R. Iturriaga;G. Paternain;M. Paternain
Letbe a convex superlinear Lagrangian on a closed connected manifoldN. We consider critical values of Lagrangians as defined by R. Mañé in [M3]. We show that the critical value of the lift ofto a covering ofNequals the infimum of the values ofksuch that the energy levelkbounds an exact Lagrangian graph in the cotangent bundle of the covering. As a consequence, we show that up to reparametrization, the dynamics of the Euler-Lagrange flow ofon an energy level that contains supports of minimizing measures with non-zero rotation vector can be reduced to Finsler metrics. We also show that if the Euler-Lagrange flow ofon the energy levelkis Anosov, thenkmust be strictly bigger than the critical valuecu() of the lift ofLto the universal covering ofN. It follows that givenk<cu(), there exists a potentialwith arbitrarily smallC2-norm such that the energy levelkofpossesses conjugate points. Finally we show the existence of weak KAM solutions for coverings ofNand we explain the relationship between Fathi's results in [F1,2] and Mañé's critical values and action potentials.