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An upper bound for the mean Lorentz force of magnetic flows without conjugate points in terms of the geodesic curvature of horocycles

  • Anthony J. García
  • Rafael O. Ruggiero
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Abstract

We study magnetic flows on closed Riemannian surfaces of genus at least two. Let (M,g) be a surface without focal points and let Ω be a magnetic field. We prove that, above the Mañé critical value, the absence of conjugate points imposes geometric restrictions on the magnetic flow. First, we obtain a bound for the integral of the Lorentz force in terms of the geodesic curvature of the horocycles of the underlying Riemannian metric. As a consequence, a lower bound on the Gaussian curvature yields an explicit bound in terms of the area of the surface. The proofs combine the global geometry of magnetic geodesics with Liouville's formula for the geodesic curvature in the orthogonal coordinates given by the level sets and geodesics of a Busemann function on the universal cover.

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@misc{garcia2026upper,
  title = {{An upper bound for the mean Lorentz force of magnetic flows without conjugate points in terms of the geodesic curvature of horocycles}},
  author = {Anthony J. García and Rafael O. Ruggiero},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.28666},
  eprint = {2609.28666},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28666},
}
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TY  - UNPB
TI  - An upper bound for the mean Lorentz force of magnetic flows without conjugate points in terms of the geodesic curvature of horocycles
AU  - Anthony J. García
AU  - Rafael O. Ruggiero
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DA  - 2026/09/23
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.28666
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28666
AB  - We study magnetic flows on closed Riemannian surfaces of genus at least two. Let (M,g) be a surface without focal points and let Ω be a magnetic field. We prove that, above the Mañé critical value, the absence of conjugate points imposes geometric restrictions on the magnetic flow. First, we obtain a bound for the integral of the Lorentz force in terms of the geodesic curvature of the horocycles of the underlying Riemannian metric. As a consequence, a lower bound on the Gaussian curvature yields an explicit bound in terms of the area of the surface. The proofs combine the global geometry of magnetic geodesics with Liouville's formula for the geodesic curvature in the orthogonal coordinates given by the level sets and geodesics of a Busemann function on the universal cover.
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