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 $C^{\infty }$-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 $C^{\infty }$-approximated by volume-preserving vector fields with equidistributed periodic orbits.

arXiv comment40 pages, comments welcome