Hamiltonian transitivity on a connected symplectic manifold

ID: hamiltonian-transitivity-on-a-connected-symplectic-manifold

Compactly supported Hamiltonian vector fields can attain any prescribed tangent vector at a point of a symplectic manifold: prescribe the derivative of a local Hamiltonian and multiply by a bump function. Composing flows for a tangent basis gives an open orbit by the inverse function theorem. Every orbit is open, so on a connected manifold the compactly supported Hamiltonian transformations act transitively.

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