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KAM splittings and equidistributed periodic orbits for stable hypersurfaces
Abstract
We show that any stable hypersurface of a symplectic $4$-manifold, on which the cohomology class of the symplectic form restricts to a multiple of a rational class, can be C∞-approximated by (possibly unstable) hypersurfaces whose closed characteristics equidistribute. The cohomological condition is necessary due to a famous example of Herman. The proof combines KAM theory with recent quantitative closing lemmas for Reeb flows and area-preserving maps. As a further application, we prove that every geodesible volume-preserving vector field on a closed three-manifold can be C∞-approximated by volume-preserving vector fields with equidistributed periodic orbits.
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BibTeX
@misc{cardona2026splittings,
title = {{KAM splittings and equidistributed periodic orbits for stable hypersurfaces}},
author = {Robert Cardona and Oliver Edtmair and Rohil Prasad},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.25465},
eprint = {2609.25465},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.25465},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - KAM splittings and equidistributed periodic orbits for stable hypersurfaces
AU - Robert Cardona
AU - Oliver Edtmair
AU - Rohil Prasad
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/21
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.25465
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.25465
AB - We show that any stable hypersurface of a symplectic $4$-manifold, on which the cohomology class of the symplectic form restricts to a multiple of a rational class, can be C^∞-approximated by (possibly unstable) hypersurfaces whose closed characteristics equidistribute. The cohomological condition is necessary due to a famous example of Herman. The proof combines KAM theory with recent quantitative closing lemmas for Reeb flows and area-preserving maps. As a further application, we prove that every geodesible volume-preserving vector field on a closed three-manifold can be C^∞-approximated by volume-preserving vector fields with equidistributed periodic orbits.
ER -