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The objective of this note is to present some results, to be proved in a forthcoming paper, about certain special solutions of the Euler-Lagrange equations on closed manifolds. Our main results extend to time dependent periodic Lagrangians with minor modifications.
We have chosen the autonomous case because this formally simpler framework allows to reach more easily the core of our concepts and results. Moreover the autonomous case exhibits certain special features involving the energy as a first integral that deserve special attention. They are closely related to the link found by Carneiro [C] between the energy and Mather's action function [Ma].
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Mañé, R. Lagrangian flows: The dynamics of globally minimizing orbits. Bol. Soc. Bras. Mat 28, 141–153 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01233389
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