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Computing Reeb dynamics on 4d convex polytopes

Symplectic Geometry 2021-07-28 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We study the combinatorial Reeb flow on the boundary of a four-dimensional convex polytope. We establish a correspondence between "combinatorial Reeb orbits" for a polytope, and ordinary Reeb orbits for a smoothing of the polytope, respecting action and Conley-Zehnder index. One can then use a computer to find all combinatorial Reeb orbits up to a given action and Conley-Zehnder index. We present some results of experiments testing Viterbo's conjecture and related conjectures. In particular, we have found some new examples of polytopes with systolic ratio 11.

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@article{arxiv.2008.10111,
  title  = {Computing Reeb dynamics on 4d convex polytopes},
  author = {Julian Chaidez and Michael Hutchings},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.10111},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

57 pages, 3 figures. Small edits, clarifications and revisions made throughout

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