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Rigidity for periodic magnetic fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2000

M. L. BIALY
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel (e-mail: bialy@math.tau.ac.il)
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Abstract

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We study the motion of a charge on a conformally flat Riemannian torus in the presence of a magnetic field. We prove that for any non-zero magnetic field there always exist orbits of this motion which have conjugate points. We conjecture that the restriction of conformal flatness of the metric is not essential for this result. This would provide a ‘twisted’ version of the recent generalization of Hopf's rigidity result obtained by Burago and Ivanov.

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© 2000 Cambridge University Press