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The symplectic shift of the cylinder changes λ by the closed, non-exact form a dθ and has no global generating function

Statement

Let T:=R/Z be the one-dimensional torus with quotient map q:R→T (The one-dimensional torus and its normalized Haar integral), let C:=T×R be the cylinder, and identify C with the quotient of R2 by the deck transformation τ(θ,I)=(θ+1,I), with quotient map π:R2→C (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 ACω where the cited torus definition requires it. Give T the smooth structure generated by the lift charts (q(J),(q∣J)−1) for open intervals J⊆R of length less than one, and give C their product charts with the real coordinate I (Smooth manifolds and their smooth charts). The quotient map is open because q−1(q(V))=⋃k∈Z(V+k) for open V; thus q∣J is a homeomorphism onto an open set. Chart transitions are locally translations by integers and leave I 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 π is a surjective local diffeomorphism. Since dθ∧dI and I dθ are invariant under τ, the expressions in each lift chart agree on overlaps (integer translations fix their differentials and I), and hence define unique smooth forms ωC,λC on C with π∗ωC=dθ∧dI and π∗λC=I dθ; while dθ descends to a smooth one-form dθC on C with π∗dθC=dθ. Let a≠0 and let Φ:C→C be the symplectic shift given in quotient coordinates by Φ(θ,I)=(θ,I+a). Then:

  1. Φ is a C∞ diffeomorphism, Φ∗ωC=ωC, and Φ∗λC=λC+a dθC;
  2. a dθC is closed but not exact: there is no C1 function W:C→R with dW=a dθC;
  3. for every point of C there is a neighbourhood on which Φ is generated by the second-kind generating function S(θ,P)=θP−aθ, but there is no C1 function S:(R/Z)×R→R whose generated map is Φ; the local generating functions do not glue to a global one.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The cylinder C with the descended forms, the real number a≠0 and the shift Φ.

[F1]

Pullback and descent (The pullback of a differential form, The exterior derivative commutes with pullback): for a smooth map of smooth manifolds, π∗ is a homomorphism of the graded algebra of forms, it commutes with d, and if π is a surjective local diffeomorphism then π∗ is injective, so an identity of forms on C holds iff its π-pullback holds on R2.

[F2]

On R2 one has τ∗(dθ∧dI)=dθ∧dI and τ∗(I dθ)=(I+0) dθ=I dθ, so the forms descend as asserted; moreover Φ∘π=π∘Φ~ for the map Φ~(θ,I)=(θ,I+a) on R2. [F1, def-the-one-dimensional-torus-and-normalized-haar-integral]

[F3]

Fundamental theorem of calculus and chain rule (Newton–Leibniz needs only continuity on [a,b], differentiability on (a,b), and a Riemann-integrable extension of the interior derivative, The chain rule for total derivatives: D(g∘f)(a)=Dg(f(a))∘Df(a)): if g is continuous on [a,b] with integrable interior derivative g′, then g(b)−g(a)=∫abg′; in particular, if g′ is the constant c on (a,b), then g(b)−g(a)=c(b−a).

[F4]

Generating relations (Generating functions of the first and second kind for a local canonical map): first-kind data satisfy p=Sθ, P=−SQ; second-kind data satisfy Q=SP, p=Sθ. For S(θ,P)=θP−aθ one has SP=θ and Sθ=P−a on R2, and det⁡SθP=1≠0; the generated local map sends (θ,I) with I=P−a to (θ,I+a), i.e. it is the local description of Φ, and it is canonical by The local map generated by a first- or second-kind generating function is a canonical C2 local diffeomorphism. [F1]

Proof

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Clause 1: the lift (θ,I)↦(θ,I+a) and its inverse (θ,I)↦(θ,I−a) descend and are smooth in the product lift charts, so Φ is a smooth diffeomorphism. By [F2] and [F1], π∗(Φ∗ωC)=(Φ∘π)∗ωC=(π∘Φ~)∗ωC=Φ~∗(π∗ωC)=Φ~∗(dθ∧dI)=dθ∧dI=π∗ωC, so injectivity of π∗ gives Φ∗ωC=ωC; likewise π∗(Φ∗λC)=Φ~∗(I dθ)=(I+a) dθ=I dθ+a dθ=π∗(λC+a dθC), which gives Φ∗λC=λC+a dθC.

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Clause 2, closedness: d(a dθC)=a d(dθC)=0 because π∗(d(dθC))=d(dθ)=0 and π∗ is injective; so a dθC is closed.

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Clause 2, non-exactness: suppose W:C→R is C1 with dW=a dθC, and set g(t):=W(π(t,0)) for t∈[0,1]. By the chain rule and dθC(∂θ)=1 at the image point, g is C1 with g′(t)=a for 0<t<1; by [F3], g(1)−g(0)=a. But π(1,0)=π(0,0) in C, so g(1)=g(0); this contradicts a≠0. Hence no such W exists, and Φ∗λC−λC=a dθC is a closed form representing a nonzero class.

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Clause 3, global failure: suppose a C1 function S exists on (R/Z)×R whose generated second-kind map is Φ, that is, with p=Sθ=I=P−a and Q=SP equal to the circle coordinate θ at every point, the former because Φ carries (θ,I) to (θ,I+a), so the new momentum is P=I+a and the old momentum is I=P−a. Lift S to a 1-periodic C1 function S^ on R2. The relation Q=θ reads S^P(θ,P)−θ∈Z; since this difference is continuous and integer-valued on R2, 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 m∈Z, so S^P(θ,P)=θ+m; the fundamental theorem of calculus in P gives S^(θ,P)=θP+mP+c(θ) with c(θ):=S^(θ,0). Differentiating in θ gives S^θ(θ,P)=P+c′(θ)=P−a, so c′(θ)=−a and, by [F3] in the variable θ, c(1)−c(0)=−a≠0, contradicting the 1-periodicity c(1)=c(0) of the lift. Hence no global S exists, while [F4] exhibits the local generating function S(θ,P)=θP−aθ on every chart where θ is a single-valued coordinate.

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First-kind exclusion: a first-kind generating function cannot generate Φ even locally. In fixed input and output lift charts, the unchanged circle coordinate means Q=θ+k for a locally constant integer k; after restricting to a connected neighbourhood it is fixed. On an open input phase neighbourhood, fix θ and choose two distinct old momenta I1,I2 in its vertical interval. The first-kind relation I=Sθ(θ,Q) would give both I1 and I2 the same value Sθ(θ,θ+k), 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, θP−aθ is a perfectly good generating function, and a dθ=d(aθ+const) on that chart. What fails globally is single-valuedness of the primitive around the circle, i.e. the class of Φ∗λC−λC in H1(C).
  • 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.

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