Monday, September 25, 2017

Week Unknown: "Open" Problems

The four problems on which I want to work when I have time:

On the circle, S1, with its standard Riemannian metric it inherits as a subspace of ℝ2, find a second-order ODE that is
  1. gradient but not Hamiltonian
  2. Hamiltonian but not gradient
  3. both gradient and Hamiltonian ("harmonic") (I think I have a heuristic proof there are no non-trivial ones)
  4. neither gradient nor Hamiltonian