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Dynamically convex Finsler metrics and $J$-holomorphic embedding of asymptotic cylinders

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We explore the relationship between contact forms on S3\mathbb S^3 defined by Finsler metrics on S2\mathbb S^2 and the theory developed by H. Hofer, K. Wysocki and E. Zehnder in \cite{HWZ,HWZ1}. We show that a Finsler metric on S2\mathbb S^2 with curvature K1K\geq 1 and with all geodesic loops of length >π>\pi is dynamically convex and hence it has either two or infinitely many closed geodesics. We also explain how to explicitly construct JJ-holomorphic embeddings of cylinders asymptotic to Reeb orbits of contact structures arising from Finsler metrics on S2\mathbb S^2 with K=1 thus complementing the results obtained in \cite{HW}.

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@article{arxiv.math/0701616,
  title  = {Dynamically convex Finsler metrics and $J$-holomorphic embedding of asymptotic cylinders},
  author = {Adam Harris and Gabriel P. Paternain},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0701616},
  year   = {2007}
}