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Fractional-linear integrals of geodesic flows on surfaces and Nakai’s geodesic 4-webs

  • Sergey I. Agafonov EMAIL logo and Thaís G. P. Alves
Published/Copyright: April 26, 2024
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Abstract

We prove that if the geodesic flow on a surface has an integral which is fractional-linear in momenta, then the dimension of the space of such integrals is either 3 or 5, the latter case corresponding to constant gaussian curvature. We give also a geometric criterion for the existence of fractional-linear integrals: such an integral exists if and only if the surface carries a geodesic 4-web with constant cross-ratio of the four directions tangent to the web leaves.

MSC 2010: 53A60; 37J06

Funding statement: This research was supported by the FAPESP grant #2022/12813-5 (S.I.A) and by the CAPES grant #88882.434346/2019-01 (T.G.P.A).

  1. Communicated by: P. Eberlein

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Received: 2023-07-09
Revised: 2024-01-09
Published Online: 2024-04-26
Published in Print: 2024-04-25

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