On the singular Weinstein conjecture and the existence of escape orbits for $b$-Beltrami fields

Motivated by Poincaré's orbits going to infinity in the (restricted) three-body problem (see \cite{poincare} and \cite{chenciner}), we investigate the generic existence of heteroclinic-like orbits in a neighbourhood of the critical set of a $b$-contact form. This is done by using the singular c...

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Autores: Miranda Galcerán, Eva|||0000-0001-9518-5279, Oms, Cedric|||0000-0001-5801-3566, Peralta-Salas, Daniel
Formato: informe técnico
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/336008
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/336008
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Reeb dynamics
Morse theory
Fluid dynamics
Beltrami fields
Classificació AMS::70 Mechanics of particles and systems
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística
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Resumo:Motivated by Poincaré's orbits going to infinity in the (restricted) three-body problem (see \cite{poincare} and \cite{chenciner}), we investigate the generic existence of heteroclinic-like orbits in a neighbourhood of the critical set of a $b$-contact form. This is done by using the singular counterpart~\cite{CMP} of Etnyre--Ghrist's contact/Beltrami correspondence~\cite{EG}, and genericity results concerning eigenfunctions of the Laplacian established by Uhlenbeck \cite{uhlenbeck}. Specifically, we analyze the $b$-Beltrami vector fields on $b$-manifolds of dimension $3$ and prove that for a generic asymptotically exact $b$-metric they exhibit escape orbits. We also show that a generic asymptotically symmetric $b$-Beltrami vector field on an asymptotically flat $b$-manifold has a generalized singular periodic orbit and at least $4$ escape orbits. Generalized singular periodic orbits are trajectories of the vector field whose $\alpha$- and $\omega$-limit sets intersect the critical surface. These results are a first step towards proving the singular Weinstein conjecture.