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On the existence of disk-like global sections for Reeb flows on the tight 3-sphere

Symplectic Geometry 2019-12-19 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We consider Reeb dynamics on the 3-sphere associated to a tight contact form. Our main result gives necessary and sufficient conditions for a periodic Reeb orbit to bound a disk-like global section for the Reeb flow, when the contact form is assumed to be non-degenerate.

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@article{arxiv.1006.0049,
  title  = {On the existence of disk-like global sections for Reeb flows on the tight 3-sphere},
  author = {Umberto Hryniewicz and Pedro A. S. Salomão},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.0049},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

39 pages, 3 figures. To appear in the Duke Mathematical Journal