Minimal measures

1 December 1989

journal article
Published by European Mathematical Society - EMS - Publishing House GmbH in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici

Vol. 64 (1) , 375-394
https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02564683

Abstract

For a finite composition of exact, area preserving, positive twist diffeomorphisms of the infinite cylinder, we will show that an invariant measure whose support consists of minimal orbits strictly minimizes the average action.

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