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A note on Reeb dynamics on the tight 3-sphere

Symplectic Geometry 2007-07-10 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We show that a nondegenerate tight contact form on the 3-sphere has exactly two simple closed Reeb orbits if and only if the differential in linearized contact homology vanishes. Moreover, in this case the Floquet multipliers and Conley-Zehnder indices of the two Reeb orbits agree with those of a suitable irrational ellipsoid in 4-space.

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@article{arxiv.0707.1068,
  title  = {A note on Reeb dynamics on the tight 3-sphere},
  author = {F. Bourgeois and K. Cieliebak and T. Ekholm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.1068},
  year   = {2007}
}

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20 pages, no figures

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