Normal forms in a neighborhood of hyperbolic periodic orbits for flows in dimension 3

Abstract

In a neighborhood of a hyperbolic periodic orbit of a volume-preserving flow on a manifold of dimension 3, we define and show the existence of a normal form for the generator of the flow that encodes the dynamics. If the flow is a contact flow, we show the existence of a normal form for the contact form what results in an improved normal form for its Reeb vector field. Additionally, we present a few rigidity results associated to periodic data for Anosov contact flows derived from the underlying normal form theory. Finally, we establish a new local rigidity result for contact flows on manifolds of dimension 3 in a neighborhood of a hyperbolic periodic point by finding a new link between the roof function and the return map to a section.