Periodic orbits and Birkhoff sections of stable Hamiltonian structures

Abstract

Stable Hamiltonian structures generalize contact forms and define a volume-preserving vector field known as the Reeb vector field. These structures appear along a stable regular energy level set of a Hamiltonian system, where the Reeb field is just a reparametrization of the Hamiltonian vector field. We study two aspects of Reeb vector fields defined by stable Hamiltonian structures in 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 the existence of a Birkhoff section.