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Volume geodesic distortion and Ricci curvature for Hamiltonian dynamics

Annales de l'Institut Fourier, ISSN: 0373-0956, Vol: 69, Issue: 3, Page: 1187-1228
2019
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We study the variation of a smooth volume form along extremals of a variational problem with nonholonomic constraints and an action-like Lagrangian. We introduce a new invariant, called volume geodesic derivative, describing the interaction of the volume with the dynamics and we study its basic properties. We then show how this invariant, together with curvature-like invariants of the dynamics, appear in the asymptotic expansion of the volume. This generalizes the well-known expansion of the Riemannian volume in terms of Ricci curvature to a wide class of Hamiltonian flows, including all sub-Riemannian geodesic flows.

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