Special Session 58: New developments in celestial mechanics and related topics

Birkhoff sections for integrable flows on 3-manifolds
Wentian Kuang
Great Bay University
Peoples Rep of China
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Abstract:
Birkhoff sections (or global surfaces of section) are an important tool in the study of Hamiltonian systems. In this talk, we present a method for directly constructing Birkhoff sections for integrable flows on 3-manifolds. The construction can be applied to boundaries of toric domains and energy surfaces of separable Hamiltonian systems, providing criteria for the existence or non-existence of certain types of Birkhoff sections.