Conjecture that cohomology free vector fields are toral Diophantine flows

Let XX be a vector field on a manifold MM. A smooth function is a cocycle for XX, and it is a coboundary if there is a smooth function uu satisfying

LXu=ϕ.\mathcal{L}_Xu=\phi.

The vector field XX is cohomology free if every smooth cocycle is cohomologous to a constant cocycle. A vector αRN\alpha\in\mathbb{R}^N is Diophantine if there exist constants c>0c>0 and γ>0\gamma>0 such that

nαcnγ|n\cdot\alpha|\geq\frac{c}{|n|^{\gamma}}

for every nZN{0}n\in\mathbb{Z}^N\setminus\{0\}; it defines the constant vector field XααX_\alpha\equiv\alpha on TN=RN/ZN\mathbb{T}^N=\mathbb{R}^N/\mathbb{Z}^N.

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.

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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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