The Mañé-Freire formula holds for magnetic flows

Abstract

In this paper, we use the recently introduced notation and terminology for magnetic systems, which provide a natural framework for extending techniques and results from the theory of geodesic flows to magnetic flows. In this context, we prove a magnetic analogue of the classical Freire--Mañé theorem and obtain some applications. As a consequence, we show that for an energy level of a magnetic system without focal points, either the metric entropy is positive or the magnetic curvature is identically zero.