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The symplectic shift of the cylinder changes by the closed, non-exact form and has no global generating function
Statement
Let be the one-dimensional torus with quotient map (The one-dimensional torus and its normalized Haar integral), let be the cylinder, and identify with the quotient of by the deck transformation , with quotient map (The quotient topology of a surjection, quotient maps, saturated sets, and the quotient of a space by an equivalence relation with its canonical projection); assume where the cited torus definition requires it. Give the smooth structure generated by the lift charts for open intervals of length less than one, and give their product charts with the real coordinate (Smooth manifolds and their smooth charts). The quotient map is open because for open ; thus is a homeomorphism onto an open set. Chart transitions are locally translations by integers and leave unchanged, hence are smooth. Hausdorffness and a countable base follow from the torus supplier and the real coordinate, so these charts specify a smooth cylinder and is a surjective local diffeomorphism. Since and are invariant under , the expressions in each lift chart agree on overlaps (integer translations fix their differentials and ), and hence define unique smooth forms on with and ; while descends to a smooth one-form on with . Let and let be the symplectic shift given in quotient coordinates by . Then:
- is a diffeomorphism, , and ;
- is closed but not exact: there is no function with ;
- for every point of there is a neighbourhood on which is generated by the second-kind generating function , but there is no function whose generated map is ; the local generating functions do not glue to a global one.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The cylinder with the descended forms, the real number and the shift .
Pullback and descent (The pullback of a differential form, The exterior derivative commutes with pullback): for a smooth map of smooth manifolds, is a homomorphism of the graded algebra of forms, it commutes with , and if is a surjective local diffeomorphism then is injective, so an identity of forms on holds iff its -pullback holds on .
On one has and , so the forms descend as asserted; moreover for the map on . [F1, def-the-one-dimensional-torus-and-normalized-haar-integral]
Fundamental theorem of calculus and chain rule (Newton–Leibniz needs only continuity on , differentiability on , and a Riemann-integrable extension of the interior derivative, The chain rule for total derivatives: ): if is continuous on with integrable interior derivative , then ; in particular, if is the constant on , then .
Generating relations (Generating functions of the first and second kind for a local canonical map): first-kind data satisfy , ; second-kind data satisfy , . For one has and on , and ; the generated local map sends with to , i.e. it is the local description of , and it is canonical by The local map generated by a first- or second-kind generating function is a canonical local diffeomorphism. [F1]
Proof
Clause 1: the lift and its inverse descend and are smooth in the product lift charts, so is a smooth diffeomorphism. By [F2] and [F1], , so injectivity of gives ; likewise , which gives .
Clause 2, closedness: because and is injective; so is closed.
Clause 2, non-exactness: suppose is with , and set for . By the chain rule and at the image point, is with for ; by [F3], . But in , so ; this contradicts . Hence no such exists, and is a closed form representing a nonzero class.
Clause 3, global failure: suppose a function exists on whose generated second-kind map is , that is, with and equal to the circle coordinate at every point, the former because carries to , so the new momentum is and the old momentum is . Lift to a -periodic function on . The relation reads ; since this difference is continuous and integer-valued on , it is constant: if it took two distinct values, the intermediate value theorem applied along the segment joining the corresponding points would produce a non-integer value. Write the constant as , so ; the fundamental theorem of calculus in gives with . Differentiating in gives , so and, by [F3] in the variable , , contradicting the -periodicity of the lift. Hence no global exists, while [F4] exhibits the local generating function on every chart where is a single-valued coordinate.
First-kind exclusion: a first-kind generating function cannot generate even locally. In fixed input and output lift charts, the unchanged circle coordinate means for a locally constant integer ; after restricting to a connected neighbourhood it is fixed. On an open input phase neighbourhood, fix and choose two distinct old momenta in its vertical interval. The first-kind relation would give both and the same value , a contradiction. Therefore no global first-kind generator can restrict to local generating data for this shift. Together with step 3.1, this excludes global generators of either kind defined in [F4].
Remarks
- The obstruction is global: locally, on any chart of the circle, is a perfectly good generating function, and on that chart. What fails globally is single-valuedness of the primitive around the circle, i.e. the class of in .
- The same computation shows that the shift is symplectic but not "exact"; the published Canonical transformation and Symplectomorphisms, local symplectomorphisms, and symplectic embeddings distinguish canonical maps from those admitting global generating functions, and this item is the explicit example of the distinction.
Depends on
A phase domain, its canonical one-form and its standard symplectic two-form
The standard two-form of a phase domain is closed and nondegenerate, with contraction
Generating functions of the first and second kind for a local canonical map
The local map generated by a first- or second-kind generating function is a canonical local diffeomorphism
The one-dimensional torus and its normalized Haar integral
The quotient topology of a surjection, quotient maps, saturated sets, and the quotient of a space by an equivalence relation with its canonical projection
The pullback of a differential form
The exterior derivative commutes with pullback
The local coordinate formula for the exterior derivative
The exterior derivative squares to zero
Closed and exact differential forms
Newton–Leibniz needs only continuity on , differentiability on , and a Riemann-integrable extension of the interior derivative
The chain rule for total derivatives:
Intermediate value theorem, by bisection with a canonical left-half rule: a continuous function on takes every value between and
Euclidean maps and diffeomorphisms
Directional derivatives and partial derivatives of a map
Intervals of : the nine order-convex forms, nondegeneracy, and length
The metric topology: a set is open when every one of its points has a ball around it inside the set; closed means open complement
Smooth manifolds and their smooth charts
Dependency tree · 2 levels
Sources
- D. Tong, Classical Dynamics (University of Cambridge Part II Mathematical Tripos), Sections 4.4.3 (generating functions) and 4.5 (action-angle variables: the cylinder as the phase space of an angle variable with a shift symmetry), printed pages 104-112
- Ana Cannas da Silva, Lectures on Symplectic Geometry, revised January 2006, Lecture 18 (integrable systems and the affine structure of the flow on tori)