Conjecture that cohomology free vector fields are toral Diophantine flows

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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 α∈RN\alpha\in\mathbb{R}^N is Diophantine if there exist constants c>0c>0 and γ>0\gamma>0 such that

∣n⋅α∣≥c∣n∣γ|n\cdot\alpha|\geq\frac{c}{|n|^{\gamma}}

for every n∈ZN∖{0}n\in\mathbb{Z}^N\setminus\{0\}; it defines the constant vector field Xα≡αX_\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.

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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