Dimension conjectures for chaotic magnetic-field directions

Let MFcsubsetT3M_Fcsubset\mathbb T^3 be a connected smooth two-manifold homologous to zero, and let a magnetic field determine trajectories on it. For a smooth one-parameter family MF,tT3M_{F,t}\subset\mathbb T^3 of such Fermi surfaces, consider the corresponding sets of chaotic directions of the magnetic field in S2S^2. Dimension conjecture for chaotic directions. (i) For a generic connected smooth two-manifold MFT3M_F\subset\mathbb T^3 homologous to zero, the set of chaotic directions of the magnetic field has Hausdorff dimension less than one in S2S^2. (ii) For a generic one-parameter smooth family MF,tT3M_{F,t}\subset\mathbb T^3 of such Fermi surfaces, this set has Hausdorff dimension less than two. The conjecture concerns the exceptional, nongeneric directions supporting chaotic trajectories; it predicts that these directions remain dimensionally small both for a single generic Fermi surface and for a generic one-parameter family.

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I. Dynnikov and S. Novikov, “Topology of quasiperiodic functions on the plane”, arXiv:math/0410464 (2004).

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