English

Periodic orbits and Birkhoff sections of stable Hamiltonian structures

Dynamical Systems 2024-09-25 v3 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

Stable Hamiltonian structures generalize contact forms and define a volume-preserving vector field known as the Reeb vector field. We study two aspects of Reeb vector fields defined by stable Hamiltonian structures on 3-manifolds: on one hand, we classify all the examples with finitely many periodic orbits under a non-degeneracy condition; on the other, we give sufficient conditions for the existence of a supporting broken book decomposition and for the existence of a Birkhoff section.

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@article{arxiv.2206.14732,
  title  = {Periodic orbits and Birkhoff sections of stable Hamiltonian structures},
  author = {Robert Cardona and Ana Rechtman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.14732},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

53 pages, 4 figures. Overall improvement of the exposition and minor corrections

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