Godbillon-Vey sequence and Francoise algorithm
Pavao Mardesic, Dmitry Novikov, Laura Ortiz-Bobadilla, Jessie, Pontigo-Herrera

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This paper explores the relationship between Godbillon-Vey sequences and Francoise's algorithm in analyzing deformations of foliations in complex two-dimensional space, connecting integrability conditions with computational methods.
Contribution
It establishes a correspondence between Godbillon-Vey sequences and Francoise's algorithm, translating results on integrability from one framework to the other.
Findings
Established the link between Godbillon-Vey sequences and Francoise's algorithm.
Translated Casale's results on integrability types into the Francoise algorithm context.
Provided insights into the structure of deformations of foliations in complex geometry.
Abstract
We consider foliations given by deformations of exact forms in in a neighborhood of a family of cycles . In 1996 Francoise gave an algorithm for calculating the first nonzero term of the displacement function along of such deformations. This algorithm recalls the well-known Godbillon-Vey sequences discovered in 1971 for investigation integrability of a form . In this paper, we establish the correspondence between the two approaches and translate some results by Casale relating types of integrability for finite Godbillon-Vey sequences to the Francoise algorithm settings.
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Godbillon-Vey sequence and Françoise algorithm
Pavao Mardešić
Université de Bourgogne, Institute de Mathématiques de Bourgogne - UMR 5584 CNRS
Université de Bourgogne, 9 avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 Dijon,
FRANCE
,
Dmitry Novikov
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 7610001
Israel
,
Laura Ortiz-Bobadilla
Instituto de Matemáticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Área de la Investigación Científica, Circuito exterior, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510, Ciudad de México, México
and
Jessie Pontigo-Herrera
Instituto de Matemáticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Área de la Investigación Científica, Circuito exterior, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510, Ciudad de México, México
Abstract.
We consider foliations given by deformations of exact forms in in a neighborhood of a family of cycles .
In 1996 Françoise gave an algorithm for calculating the first nonzero term of the displacement function along of such deformations. This algorithm recalls the well-known Godbillon-Vey sequences discovered in 1971 for investigation integrability of a form . In this paper, we establish the correspondence between the two approaches and translate some results by Casale relating types of integrability for finite Godbillon-Vey sequences to the Françoise algorithm settings.
Key words and phrases:
Françoise algorithm, Godbillon-Vey sequence, Melnikov functions, integrability
1991 Mathematics Subject Classification:
34C07 (primary), 34M15, 34C05, 34C08 (secondary)
This work was supported by Israel Science Foundation grant 1167/17, Papiit (Dgapa UNAM) IN106217, ECOS Nord-Conacyt 249542 and Fordecyt 265667
1. Introduction
Let be a regular curve, a trasversal to , a holomorphic function defined on a tubular neighborhood of , formed by regular curves , , with .
Consider the integrable foliation and its holomorphic deformation
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in . We are interested in the displacement function (holonomy along minus identity) of (1.1). Here denotes the holonomy of (1.1) along . It can be developped as
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The functions are called Melnikov functions. If , this means that (1.1) has a first integral in a neighborhood of . If not, then there exists a first non-zero Melnikov function .
1.1. Françoise algorithm
Françoise algorithm allows to compute the first nonzero Melnikov function . Let us first recall the following classical Lemma.
Lemma 1.1**.**
Given a holomorphic one-form and a family of cycles , the following conditions are equivalent:
- (i)
The form verifies
[TABLE] 2. (ii)
There exists a function holomorphic in a neighborhood of such that
[TABLE] 3. (iii)
There exist functions and holomorphic in a neighborhood of such that
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Note that the functions and are univalued in but in general do not extend to polynomial, nor even univalued functions in .
Recall, the classical result of Poincaré and Pontryagin:
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If , then, by Lemma 1.1,
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and in that case, Françoise [3] proves the following theorem (see also [13], [7], [8], [4], [5], [11], [12], [10]):
Theorem 1.2**.**
Let (1.2) be the displacement function of (1.1). Assume that , for . Then , where and , verify
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The existence of the decomposition (1.6), follows by induction from Lemma 1.1.
Definition 1.3**.**
We call any pair verifying (1.6) an -th Françoise pair associated to the deformation (1.1) and call the sequence a Françoise sequence. We say that the length of a Françoise sequence is , if is the smallest index such that If there does not exist such an index, we say that the sequence if of infinite length.
1.2. Godbillon-Vey sequence
On the other hand, the classical Godbillon-Vey sequence is associated to a foliation defined by a single one form
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It is a sequence of one-forms , , such that the formal one-form
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in verifies the formal integrability condition
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Here denotes the total differential with respect to all variables .
Condition (1.9) is equivalent to
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We say that the Godbillon-Vey sequence is of length if the forms vanish for .
Definition 1.4**.**
Let be a differential field, a function and the extension of by . We say that the extension is: Darboux, Liouville or Riccati, respectively, if it belongs to a finite sequence of field extensions starting from the field . The extensions in each step are either algebraic or given respectively by solutions of the equations , or , with one-forms with coefficients in the corresponding field extensions.
In that case, we call the function Darboux, Liouville or Riccati with respect to .
In [1], Casale relates the length of the Godbillon-Vey sequence to the type of first integral of the foliation given by (1.7):
Theorem 1.5**.**
- (i)
There exists a Godbillon-Vey sequence of length if and only if (1.7) has a Darboux first integral. 2. (ii)
There exists a Godbillon-Vey sequence of length if and only if (1.7) has a Liouvillian first integral. 3. (iii)
There exists a Godbillon-Vey sequence of length if and only if (1.7) has a Riccati first integral.
Here we develop a version of Godbillon-Vey sequences well-adapted to studying a deformation of an integrable foliation given by (1.1). Recall that on the level it is integrable (with first integral ). The Godbillon-Vey sequence gives a condition for verifying if this integrability extends to .
We define the form
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with
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unknown functions and . The form (1.10) of comes from the requirement to define the same foliation as (1.1) on each level .
We give a relative version of the definition of different types of first integral for the deformation (1.1).
Definition 1.6**.**
We denote by the field associated to the deformation (1.1). That is, the smallest differential field in a tubular neighborhood of a cycle containing the functions given by coefficients of and .
Let , , be a first integral of (1.1). We say that it is Darboux, Liouville or Riccati, respectively, if all are in the corresponding extension of the field .
Theorem 1.7**.**
[6]** There exists a solution of the equation
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if and only if the deformation preserves formal integrability along i.e. .
Proof.
Indeed, if there exists a solution of (1.7), then by Frobenius theorem, defines a foliation in a neighborhood of in transversal to . It follows from the existence of this foliation that the integrability on the level is preserved on nearby levels. ∎
We will also consider the Godbillon-Vey equation up to order with given by (1.10) and (1.11):
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Definition 1.8**.**
We call any pair verifying (1.13) an -th * Godbillon-Vey pair associated to the deformation (1.1), is the * Godbillon-Vey sequence associated to the deformation*. We say that the length of a Godbillon-Vey sequence associated to the deformation is , if is the smallest index such that . If there does not exist such an index, we say that the sequence if of infinite length.*
Remark 1.9**.**
Note that the length is associated to any Françoise sequence or Godbillon-Vey sequence associated to the deformation (1.1).
However, one deformation (1.1) can have Françoise sequences (or Godbillon-Vey sequence) of different lengths. The minimal length is well defined and one can choose a Françoise sequence so that all , for . The same applies for the Godbillon-Vey sequences.
Françoise pairs and Godbillon-Vey pairs exist for all if and only if the deformation preserves integrability along .
2. Main theorems
In this section we state our two main results. The first establishes the relationship between the Françoise pairs and the Godbillon-Vey pairs associated to the deformation. In particular it shows that the minimal length of Françoise sequences and Godbillon-Vey sequences coincide:
Theorem 2.1**.**
- (i)
The Melnikov functions , , are identically equal to zero if and only if one can solve the equation
[TABLE] 2. (ii)
For each choice of the Françoise sequence , , the Godbillon-Vey sequence , , can be chosen verifying the equations
[TABLE] 3. (iii)
If verifies (2.1) then
- a)
there exists a function such that
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Then the function is of the form
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and
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- b)
Let and be given in (2.4) and , , be its coefficients as in (1.11). Then the functions , , given by (2.2) are Françoise pairs.
Our second result gives the type of local first integral of the deformation (1.1) if the length of its Françoise sequence is finite. The first result is that the first integral is in a finite sequence of extensions of Darboux type. The second shows that it is in a single extension of Liouvillian type.
Theorem 2.2**.**
Let as in (1.1) be such that there exists a Françoise sequence of finite length .
- (i)
Then (1.1) admits a univalued first integral which is Darboux with respect to the field of the deformation (1.1). 2. (ii)
Then there exists a meromorphic form verifying the Godbillon-Vey sequence of length :
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such that there exists a (possibly multivalued) first integral of (1.1) verifying
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where
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is a (possibly multivalued) function in a tubular neighborhood of the cycle .
In particular, the function belongs to a Liouville extension of and belongs to a Darboux extension of this Liouville extension.
Remark 2.3**.**
Note that we are restricting our study to a tubular neighborhood of a cycle . A first integral which is Darboux in can be more complicated (Liouville, Riccati,…) when studied globally.
Remark 2.4**.**
In Theorem 2.2 (ii) we prove in particular that if the deformation (1.1) has a finite Françoise sequence, then it has a Liouvillian first integral. The converse is an interesting question.
Remark 2.5**.**
In Theorem 2.2 we suppose that (1.1) has a Françoise sequence of finite order. What happens in the case of ? In particular, is it possible to give a condition assuring that a deformation (1.1) has a Liouville or a Riccati first integral in these terms?
3. Proof of Theorem 2.1
Proof.
We first prove the direct implication of the statement (i), the converse will follow from (iii)(b). If the functions identically vanish for , then one can build a first integral of in the following way: extend to transversal to in as , and extend it to a neighborhood of in by the flow. The extension is a multivalued function, but different branches of agree on by assumption, and therefore everywhere in . In other words, in the decomposition , , the functions are univalued for .
This implies that in the decomposition
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the coefficients are univalued modulo terms of order , and we take , where denotes the -th jet with respect to . Then verifies (2.1).
Using (1.6), the proof of (ii) follows from the computation:
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where . Therefore, by (2.2) and (1.11),
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is closed up to order and therefore satisfies (2.1).
We prove statement (iii)(a) and (iii)(b) simultaneously by induction. We define weights of monomials by posing and , so and preserve weights. We will denote by any collection of terms of weight . In these notations, (2.1) is equivalent to
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Let . We construct the function by induction.
Consider first . A simple computation shows that
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so, simplifying by , (3.1) for is equivalent to
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By Lemma 1.1, this equation can be solved if and only if , i.e. if and only if the first Françoise condition is satisfied. Therefore, the existence of satisfying (2.1) for is equivalent to the first Françoise condition, and we can choose in (1.6) to be equal to ,
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Hence,
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for some function . Therefore,
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where and .
Now, let and assume (3.1). In particular, it means that . By induction, we have
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Define
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where is homogeneous of weight . We have .
But has weight . Therefore
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Note that has form (1.10), with as in (2.2) for . Separating terms of weight , we get
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Therefore
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As is a solution of (2.1), this equation is solvable, which, by Lemma 1.1, means that , i.e. that the -th Melnikov function vanishes identically. Moreover, (3.3) implies
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i.e. Françoise decomposition (1.6) of with -th Francoise pair , such that .
Therefore
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where , and
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as required. ∎
4. Proof of Theorem 2.2
Proof.
Proof of (i): Let , be a Françoise sequence and assume that , for (see Remark 1.9). Let
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It follows from the definition of Françoise pairs (1.6) that
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Differentiating (1.6) and dividing by (that is, applying the Gelfand-Leray derivative), one obtains
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By induction, from the Definition 1.4, is Darboux, for . It now follows from (1.6) that , , is Darboux as well and by Definition 1.6, the first integral is Darboux with respect to the field .
Proof of (ii): Let , and be as in (4.1). Now from (4.2) it follows that
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Hence, . The two equations together give a Godbillon-Vey sequence of length 2 in a Liouville extension of the space of forms with coeffients in in and holomorphic with respect to the parameter .
Now Singer’s theorem [9] (see also [2]) gives that there exists a form with coeffcients in (holomorphic with respect to ) verifying the same Godbillon-Vey equations:
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That is is closed. Hence, there exists a (possibly multivalued) function defined in such that
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One verifies that the form is closed. This means that there exists a (possibly multivalued) function verifying
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∎
5. Classical Godbillon-Vey sequences and examples
Let be the form given by (1.10). We apply the classical Godbillon-Vey condition (1.9) to the form
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Comparing to the closed form (1.10), we conclude that the forms defined by
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from a Godbillon-Vey sequence of :
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and the forms
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form a Godbillon-Vey sequence of . This sequence could be infinite.
In classical setting one starts from a given foliation for , and looks for a simplest perturbation such that the form is integrable. Results of [2] say that if the foliation is Darboux integrable, Liouville integrable or Riccati integrable, then one can find perturbations such that either does not depend on or is polynomial in of degree or , respectively, i.e. that the Godbillon-Vey sequence has finite length.
In this paper, given a perturbation (1.1), and we construct a one-form such that its restriction to the planes defines the same foliation as the initial one. In other words, unlike the classical settings, here the perturbation of the foliation is almost uniquely prescribed, the only freedom being the coefficients in (1.10). Thus the length of the corresponding Godbillon-Vey sequence can be infinite even if is Liouville integrable for all .
Example 5.1**.**
Let and . For symmetry reasons, the perturbation (1.1) is integrable. Computation shows that
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Then a first integral is given by
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and therefore the Godbillon-Vey forms are Taylor coefficients in of
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One can see that this series is not polynomial in , though the first integral is of Liouville type. Some authors call this type of functions generalized Darboux.
Example 5.2**.**
For a trivially integrable perturbation , the Françoise pairs are given by , , and , for . Therefore the first integral is
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and
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Example 5.3**.**
For a Darboux integrable perturbation (1.1) with we have
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so
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Then
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Therefore the forms
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form a Godbillon-Vey sequence for , and hence
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form a Godbillon-Vey sequence for , so this Godbillon-Vey sequence for has length .
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Sergei Voronin for fruitful discussions.
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