A periodic orbit that bounds a disk-like global surface of section links every other periodic orbit non-trivially
ProvedHryniewiczCriterion.linksNontrivially_of_isDiskLikeGlobalSectionMapLet be a strictly star-shaped level, and let be a periodic orbit (not necessarily prime) that bounds a disk-like global surface of section with . Let be any periodic orbit on with . Then the loops and in have a linking number in the Gauss-integral sense of IsLinkingNumber, and .
Proof idea. By uniqueness of trajectories the two images are disjoint. So misses , and is a compact subset of the interior. There is transverse to , so the intersections are isolated and finite in number. Since is connected and never lies in its tangent plane, crosses from the same side at every point, so all intersections have the same sign. The global-section property forces at least one intersection. The linking number equals the algebraic intersection number of the loop (traversed over ) with the Seifert surface of , which is therefore , counted with the multiplicity of the covers.
import Definitions.Def_HryniewiczCriterion_ConleyZehnder import Definitions.Def_HryniewiczCriterion_GlobalSection import Definitions.Def_HryniewiczCriterion_SelfLinking open HryniewiczCriterion
theorem HryniewiczCriterion.linksNontrivially_of_isDiskLikeGlobalSectionMap (H : R4 → ℝ) (hS : IsStrictlyStarShapedLevel H) (P Q : PeriodicOrbit H)
(e : Plane → R4) (he : IsDiskLikeGlobalSectionMap H P e) (hQ : Q.image ≠ P.image) :
LinksNontrivially P Q := by sorry