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Geodesics on the space of Lagrangian submanifolds in cotangent bundles

Author(s): Darko Milinkovic
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 129 (2001), 1843-1851.
MSC (1991): Primary 58E05; Secondary 57R57, 58F05
Posted: November 3, 2000
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Abstract:

We prove that the space of Hamiltonian deformations of zero section in a cotangent bundle of a compact manifold is locally flat in the Hofer metric and we describe its geodesics.


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Darko Milinkovic
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-3875
Address at time of publication: Matematicki Fakultet, Studentski trg 16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Email: dmilinko@math.uci.edu, milinko@matf.bg.ac.yu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-00-05851-2
PII: S 0002-9939(00)05851-2
Received by editor(s): September 21, 1999
Posted: November 3, 2000
Communicated by: Jozef Dodziuk
Copyright of article: Copyright 2000, American Mathematical Society


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