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A Poincar\'e-Birkhoff theorem for tight Reeb flows on $S^3$

Dynamical Systems 2014-04-03 v3 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We consider Reeb flows on the tight 33-sphere admitting a pair of closed orbits forming a Hopf link. If the rotation numbers associated to the transverse linearized dynamics at these orbits fail to satisfy a certain resonance condition then there exist infinitely many periodic trajectories distinguished by their linking numbers with the components of the link. This result admits a natural comparison to the Poincar\'e-Birkhoff theorem on area-preserving annulus homeomorphisms. An analogous theorem holds on SO(3)SO(3) and applies to geodesic flows of Finsler metrics on S2S^2.

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@article{arxiv.1110.3782,
  title  = {A Poincar\'e-Birkhoff theorem for tight Reeb flows on $S^3$},
  author = {Umberto Hryniewicz and Al Momin and Pedro A. S. Salomão},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.3782},
  year   = {2014}
}

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67 pages. To appear in Inventiones Mathematicae

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