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On the Generic Existence of Periodic Orbits in Hamiltonian Dynamics

Symplectic Geometry 2009-08-25 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We prove several generic existence results for infinitely many periodic orbits of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms or Reeb flows. For instance, we show that a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism of a complex projective space or Grassmannian generically has infinitely many periodic orbits. We also consider symplectomorphisms of the two-torus with irrational flux. We show that such a symplectomorphism necessarily has infinitely many periodic orbits whenever it has one and all periodic points are non-degenerate.

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@article{arxiv.0908.3286,
  title  = {On the Generic Existence of Periodic Orbits in Hamiltonian Dynamics},
  author = {Viktor L. Ginzburg and Basak Z. Gurel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.3286},
  year   = {2009}
}

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14 pages