Topological and ergodic properties of closed 1-forms with incommensurable periods (Q808486)

Let us consider a closed differential 1-form on a compact manifold. The aim of this paper is to investigate families of hypersurfaces on which the form vanishes in the case in which the periods of the form are incommensurable, but otherwise the form is in general position. It turns out that this problem is equivalent to the problem of hyperplane sections of period noncompact manifolds in Euclidean spaces. We prove that a hyperplane pseudoperiodic section divides a periodic manifold into two unbounded parts (and also arbitrarily many bounded parts). From this it follows that the Hamiltonian system corresponding to a multi-valued Hamiltonian on a two-dimensional torus decomposes into cells that are filled up by periodic trajectories and an ergodic component of positive measure, on which the phase flow is isomorphic to the special flow over the rotation of the circle (by an angle equal to \(2\pi\) times the ratio of the periods of the form).