Conjecture that cohomology free vector fields are toral Diophantine flows
Let be a vector field on a manifold . A smooth function is a cocycle for , and it is a coboundary if there is a smooth function satisfying
The vector field is cohomology free if every smooth cocycle is cohomologous to a constant cocycle. A vector is Diophantine if there exist constants and such that
for every ; it defines the constant vector field on .
Cohomology-free vector field conjecture. Any cohomology free vector field is smoothly conjugated to a Diophantine vector field on a torus.
Constant Diophantine vector fields on tori are the known examples of cohomology free vector fields, and the conjecture asserts that these are the only examples up to smooth conjugacy.
References
Primary source
F. Rodriguez Hertz and MA. Rodriguez Hertz, “Cohomology free systems and the first Betti number”, arXiv:math/0609368 (2006).
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