English

Global surfaces of section for dynamically convex Reeb flows on lens spaces

Symplectic Geometry 2021-04-20 v3 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We show that a dynamically convex Reeb flow on the standard tight lens space (L(p,1),ξstd)(L(p, 1),\xi_{\mathrm{std}}), p>1,p>1, admits a pp-unknotted closed Reeb orbit PP which is the binding of a rational open book decomposition with disk-like pages. Each page is a rational global surface of section for the Reeb flow and the Conley-Zehnder index of the pp-th iterate of PP is 33. We also check dynamical convexity in the H\'enon-Heiles system for low positive energies. In this case the rational open book decomposition follows from the fact that the sphere-like component of the energy surface admits a Z3\mathbb{Z}_{3}-symmetric periodic orbit and the flow descends to a Reeb flow on the standard tight (L(3,2),ξstd)(L(3,2),\xi_{\mathrm{std}}).

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@article{arxiv.1803.06439,
  title  = {Global surfaces of section for dynamically convex Reeb flows on lens spaces},
  author = {Alexsandro Schneider},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.06439},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

29 pages; 4 figures; v2 Corrected the argument in the application of our results to the H\'enon-Heiles hamiltonian. Removed the application to Hill's lunar problem. Other minor corrections. v3 Corrected the argument on page 22. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1505.02713 by other authors