Functions in involution

It is well known that if a smooth function / with nondegenerate critical points, i.e., a Morse function, is given on a smooth manifold Q, then knowing these points and their indices allows us to say much about the topology of the manifold Q. It will be shown in the present chapter that an analogue of this theory exists also in the case where on a symplectic manifold a set of independent functions in involution is given, the number of which is equal to half the dimension of the manifold. 

Brailov, A. V., Some constructions of complete families of functions in involution. In Trudy Seminara po Vect. i. Tenz. Anal.j issue 22 (1985), 17-24, Moscow. 

Integrating a given system in the sense of Liouville means involving the system s Hamiltonian / in the family of functions which are in involution and are such that among them one can choose n independent functions, where n is half the dimension of the enveloping manifold. If such a set of functions is found, then (under the assumptions of Theorem 1.2.5) the trajectories of the system move along tori of half the dimension and set on these tori a conditionally periodic motion in appropriate coc pdinates. 

Consider noncritical level surfaces Q, that b, such surfaces on which grad H 0. For a complete Liouville-integrability of the system v on the manifold Af, it suffices to find one more additional (second) integral / which b independent of the integral H (almost everywhere) and b in involution with it. Let such an integral exbt. We restrict it to the surface Q and obtain a smooth function. As has already been mentioned, we will consider integrability of the system only on one separate constant-energy surface. 

If is a smooth manifold, then one can always find at least one maximal linear commutative subalgebra ( o It is constructed in a very simple way. It turns out that on C M) a closed 2n-dimensional ball in which the canonical sympletic coordinates Pi, 9i,.. iPm 9n given, one can always construct a set of n independent smooth functions which are in involution and vanish on... 

It is easy to calculate that the functions measure zero, and sewing the functions constructed above, we obtain just the maximal linear commutative subalgebra on M. 

Thus, we can already speak of functions which are in involution on the entire coalgebra G and not only on the orbits O. We shall now specify the class of Lie algebras important for our further purposes. 

Definition 3.3.1 We shall say that a Lie algebra G is integrable if on G there exists a linear subspace V C C°°(G) in which one can single out an additive basis of functionally independent functions. .., (where q = dim7), such that they are in involution on G with respect to the Poisson bracket, and... 

Lemma 3.3.2. If functions a and p on G were in involution with respect to the canonical Poisson bracket, that is, a, P g = 0 (see the deGnition of the bracket above), then their preimages are in involution with respect to the initial Poisson bracket induced on M by the 2-form w, that is, aF, PF f = 0. 

Definition 3.4.3 The sympleetic structure (A/,o ) is called meromorphically (respectively, additively) integrable if on Af there exists n independent meromorphic (respectively, additive) functions hi,..., which are in involution with respect to the Poisson bracket and possesses the following property for a certain set of complex numbers (ci,..., c ) G C", the closure of the level set hi = ci,..., hn = Cn does not intersect the divisor of the poles hi,..., hn. 

It can easily be checked that the integrals hi,q, /14 are functionally independent and the integrals /13 and are in involution on the orbits. 

They are in involution on orbits and are functionally independent almost everywhere. 

It all hangs together. To account for such consilience, Plichta [6] conjectured that numbers have real existence in the same sense as space and time. A more conservative interpretation would link numbers, through the golden ratio, to the curvature of space-time. A common inference is that the appearance of numbers as a manifestation of the periodicity of atomic matter is due to a spherical wave structure of the atom. A decisive argument is that the fiiU symmetry, implied by the golden ratio, incorporates both matter and antimatter as a closed periodic function with involution, as in Fig. 9, in line with projective space-time structure. 

Grether M.E., Abrams J.M., Agapite J., White K. and Steller H. 1995. The head involution defective gene of Drosophila melanogaster functions in programmed cell death. Genes Dev. 9 1694—1708. 

Richard Dedekind s modularity law holds for closed subsets. The treatment of so-called length functions, which one obtains from generating sets of closed subsets, is another subject which allows one to mimic group theoretic techniques in scheme theory. Finally, the notion of a closed subset leads us to the notion of an involution in scheme theory. 

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