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Contact forms with large systolic ratio in dimension three

Symplectic Geometry 2021-03-05 v1 Differential Geometry Dynamical Systems

Abstract

The systolic ratio of a contact form on a closed three-manifold is the quotient of the square of the shortest period of closed Reeb orbits by the contact volume. We show that every co-orientable contact structure on any closed three-manifold is defined by a contact form with arbitrarily large systolic ratio. This shows that the many existing systolic inequalities in Finsler and Riemannian geometry are not purely contact-topological phenomena.

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@article{arxiv.1709.01621,
  title  = {Contact forms with large systolic ratio in dimension three},
  author = {Alberto Abbondandolo and Barney Bramham and Umberto L. Hryniewicz and Pedro A. S. Salomão},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.01621},
  year   = {2021}
}

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17 pages, 2 figures

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