Generic properties of 3-dimensional Reeb flows: Birkhoff sections and entropy

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Authors Vincent Colin, Pierre Dehornoy, Umberto L. Hryniewicz, Ana Rechtman

Publication date 3 February 2022

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37Jxx) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25)

Abstract: In this paper we use broken book decompositions to study Reeb flows on closed $3$-manifolds. We show that if the Liouville measure of a nondegenerate contact form can be approximated by periodic orbits, then there is a Birkhoff section for the associated Reeb flow. In view of Irie's equidistribution theorem, this is shown to imply that the set of contact forms whose Reeb flows have a Birkhoff section contains an open and dense set in the $C^{i}nfty$-topology. We also show that the set of contact forms whose Reeb flows have positive topological entropy is open and dense in the $C^{i}nfty$-topology.

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