Conjecture that cohomology free vector fields are toral Diophantine flows
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.
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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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