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Genus zero transverse foliations for weakly convex Reeb flows on the tight $3$-sphere

Symplectic Geometry 2024-08-21 v5 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

A contact form on the tight 33-sphere (S3,ξ0)(S^3,\xi_0) is called weakly convex if the Conley-Zehnder index of every Reeb orbit is at least 22. In this article, we study Reeb flows of weakly convex contact forms on (S3,ξ0)(S^3,\xi_0) admitting a prescribed finite set of index-22 Reeb orbits, which are all hyperbolic and mutually unlinked. We present conditions so that these index-22 orbits are binding orbits of a genus zero transverse foliation whose additional binding orbits have index 33. In addition, we show in the real-analytic case that the topological entropy of the Reeb flow is positive if the branches of the stable/unstable manifolds of the index-22 orbits are mutually non-coincident.

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@article{arxiv.2206.12856,
  title  = {Genus zero transverse foliations for weakly convex Reeb flows on the tight $3$-sphere},
  author = {Naiara V. de Paulo and Umberto Hryniewicz and Seongchan Kim and Pedro A. S. Salomão},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.12856},
  year   = {2024}
}

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48 pages; To appear in Advances in Mathematics