ECH Constraints and Twist Dynamics in the Spatial Isosceles Three-Body Problem

Abstract

We study dynamical constraints arising from Embedded Contact Homology (ECH) in the spatial isosceles three-body problem. For energies below the critical level, the dynamics on the energy surface is identified with a Reeb flow on the tight three-sphere. We obtain quantitative estimates for the Euler orbit, including monotonicity of its transverse rotation number and a strict inequality comparing its action with the contact volume. Combined with the ECH classification of Reeb flows on the tight three-sphere with two simple periodic orbits, these estimates rule out the two-orbit scenario, thus forcing every compact energy surface below the critical level to have infinitely many periodic orbits. The result admits a dynamical interpretation via disk-like global surfaces of section bounded by the Euler orbit. In this setting, the rotation number and the contact volume define a non-trivial twist interval which encodes the relative winding of periodic orbits. For energies above the critical level, where the energy surface is non-compact, we prove the existence of infinitely many periodic orbits and infinitely many parabolic trajectories via twist estimates near infinity.