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Positive topological entropy of positive contactomorphisms

Symplectic Geometry 2018-07-03 v1

Abstract

A positive contactomorphism of a contact manifold MM is the end point of a contact isotopy on MM that is always positively transverse to the contact structure. Assume that MM contains a Legendrian sphere Λ\Lambda, and that (M,Λ)(M,\Lambda) is fillable by a Liouville domain (W,ω)(W,\omega) with exact Lagrangian LL such that ωπ2(W,L)=0\omega|_{\pi_2(W,L)}=0. We show that if the exponential growth of the action filtered wrapped Floer homology of (W,L)(W,L) is positive, then every positive contactomorphism of MM has positive topological entropy. This result generalizes the result of Alves and Meiwes from Reeb flows to positive contactomorphisms, and it yields many examples of contact manifolds on which every positive contactomorphism has positive topological entropy, among them the exotic contact spheres found by Alves and Meiwes. A main step in the proof is to show that wrapped Floer homology is isomorphic to the positive part of Lagrangian Rabinowitz-Floer homology.

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@article{arxiv.1807.00162,
  title  = {Positive topological entropy of positive contactomorphisms},
  author = {Lucas Dahinden},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.00162},
  year   = {2018}
}