Quantitative conditions for right-handedness of flows

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Main Authors: Florio, Anna, Hryniewicz, Umberto
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author Florio, Anna
Hryniewicz, Umberto
author_facet Florio, Anna
Hryniewicz, Umberto
contents We give a numerical condition for right-handedness of a dynamically convex Reeb flow on the $3$-sphere. Our condition is stated in terms of an asymptotic ratio between the amount of rotation of the linearised flow and the linking number of trajectories with a periodic orbit that spans a disk-like global surface of section. As an application, we find an explicit constant $δ_* < 0.7225$ such that if a Riemannian metric on the $2$-sphere is $δ$-pinched with $δ> δ_*$, then its geodesic flow lifts to a right-handed flow on the $3$-sphere. In particular, all finite non-empty collections of periodic orbits of such a geodesic flow bind open books whose pages are global surfaces of section.
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spellingShingle Quantitative conditions for right-handedness of flows
Florio, Anna
Hryniewicz, Umberto
Dynamical Systems
Symplectic Geometry
37Exx, 53D25
We give a numerical condition for right-handedness of a dynamically convex Reeb flow on the $3$-sphere. Our condition is stated in terms of an asymptotic ratio between the amount of rotation of the linearised flow and the linking number of trajectories with a periodic orbit that spans a disk-like global surface of section. As an application, we find an explicit constant $δ_* < 0.7225$ such that if a Riemannian metric on the $2$-sphere is $δ$-pinched with $δ> δ_*$, then its geodesic flow lifts to a right-handed flow on the $3$-sphere. In particular, all finite non-empty collections of periodic orbits of such a geodesic flow bind open books whose pages are global surfaces of section.
title Quantitative conditions for right-handedness of flows
topic Dynamical Systems
Symplectic Geometry
37Exx, 53D25
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.12512