Title: Invariant fibrations and geodesic flows
Abstract: Which manifolds possess a riemannian metric whose geodesic
flow is completely integrable? V.V. Kozlov, in 1979, gave an elegant
proof that the compact surfaces that possess an integrable metric are
exactly those surfaces with a solvable fundamental group. In turn, these
are the surfaces which admit a non-hyperbolic geometry.
This talk will describe a generalization of Kozlov's theorem to compact
3-manifolds. The simplest formulation of this theorem says that,
assuming the geometrization conjecture, a compact 3-manifold possesses
an integrable metric iff its fundamental group is solvable iff it admits
a geometric structure modeled on one of the five `non-hyperbolic'
3-manifold geometries.
An integrable n-body system plays a key role in this result, and
suggests higher-dimensional generalizations.