Actions of symplectic homeomorphisms/diffeomorphisms on foliations by curves in dimension 2

Abstract

AbstractThe two main results in this paper concern the regularity of the invariant foliation of a $C^0$ -integrable symplectic twist diffeomorphism of the two-dimensional annulus, namely that (i) the generating function of such a foliation is $C^1$ , and (ii) the foliation is Hölder with exponent $\tfrac 12$ . We also characterize foliations by graphs that are straightenable via a symplectic homeomorphism and prove that every symplectic homeomorphism that leaves invariant all the leaves of a straightenable foliation has Arnol’d–Liouville coordinates, in which the dynamics restricted to the leaves is conjugate to a rotation. We deduce that every Lipschitz integrable symplectic twist diffeomorphisms of the two-dimensional annulus has Arnol’d–Liouville coordinates and then provide examples of ‘strange’ Lipschitz foliations by smooth curves that cannot be straightened by a symplectic homeomorphism and cannot be invariant by a symplectic twist diffeomorphism.