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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">journal-of-dynamical-systems-and-geometric-theories</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Dynamical Systems and Geometric Theories</journal-title>
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      <issn publication-format="electronic">2169-0057</issn>
      <issn publication-format="print">1726-037X</issn>
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        <publisher-name>Taru Publications</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1080/1726037X.2021.2011110</article-id>
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        <article-title>Hofer-Like Geometry and Flux Theory</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name>
            <surname>Tchuiaga</surname>
            <given-names>Stéphane</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>University of Buea, Cameroon</aff>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>19</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>227</fpage>
      <lpage>270</lpage>
      <pub-date date-type="pub">
        <day>04</day>
        <month>01</month>
        <year>2022</year>
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        <p>This paper meticulously revisit and study the flux geometry of any compact connected oriented manifold (M, Ω). We generalize several well- known factorization results, exhibit some orbital conditions under which flux geometry can be studied, give a proof of the discreteness of the flux group for volume-preserving diffeomorphisms, derive that any smooth isotopy in the group of all vanishing-flux volume-preserving diffeomorphisms is a vanishing- flux path, and show that the kernel of flux for volume-preserving diffeomorphisms is C1−closed inside the group of all volume-preserving diffeomorphisms isotopic to the identity map: We recover several well-known results from symplectic geometry. We use the above studies to construct a right-invariant metric on the group of all volume-preserving diffeomorphisms isotopic to the identity map and study the induced geometry. In the case of a symplectic volume form, the restriction of our metric to the group Ham(N, ω), of all Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of a closed symplectic manifold (N, ω), is controlled from above by the usual Hofer metric in general, while the Hofer-like metric control our metric in the case where the Riemannian structure is compatible with the symplectic structure (in particular, our construction implies the non-degeneracy of the Hofer and Hofer-like norms).</p>
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        <kwd>RigiditySymplectic manifoldsDifferential topological aspects of volume-preserving diffeomorphismsIsotopiesHomotopyMetrics</kwd>
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