On the Stability of the Set of Hyperbolic Closed Orbits of a Hamiltonian

Abstract

A Hamiltonian level, say a pair $(H,e)$ of a Hamiltonian $H$ and an energy $e \in \mathbb{R}$, is said to be Anosov if there exists a connected component $\mathcal{E}_{H,e}$ of $H^{-1}({e})$ which is uniformly hyperbolic for the Hamiltonian flow $X_H^t$. The pair $(H,e)$ is said to be a Hamiltonian star system if there exists a connected component $\mathcal{E}^\star_{H,e}$ of the energy level $H^{-1}({e})$ such that all the closed orbits and all the critical points of $\mathcal{E}^\star_{H,e}$ are hyperbolic, and the same holds for a connected component of the energy level $\tilde{H}^{-1}({\tilde{e}})$, close to $\mathcal{E}^\star_{H,e}$, for any Hamiltonian $\tilde{H}$, in some $C^2$-neighbourhood of $H$, and $\tilde{e}$ in some neighbourhood of $e$. In this article we prove that for any four-dimensional Hamiltonian star level $(H,e)$ if the surface $\mathcal{E}^\star_{H,e}$ does not contain critical points, then $X_H^t|_{\mathcal{E}^\star_{H,e}}$ is Anosov; if $\mathcal{E}^\star_{H,e}$ has critical points, then there exists $\tilde{e}$, arbitrarily close to $e$, such that $X_H^t|_{\mathcal{E}^\star_{H,\tilde{e}}}$ is Anosov.