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Sharp systolic inequalities for invariant tight contact forms on principal S1-bundles over S2

Symplectic Geometry 2024-06-13 v3 Differential Geometry Dynamical Systems

Abstract

The systole of a contact form α\alpha is defined as the shortest period of closed Reeb orbits of α\alpha. Given a non-trivial S1\mathbb S^1-principal bundle over S2\mathbb S^2 with total space MM, we prove a sharp systolic inequality for the class of tight contact form on MM invariant under the S1\mathbb S^1-action. This inequality exhibits a behavior which depends on the Euler class of the bundle in a subtle way. As applications, we prove a sharp systolic inequality for rotationally symmetric Finsler metrics on S2\mathbb S^2, a systolic inequality for the shortest contractible closed Reeb orbit, and a particular case of a conjecture by Viterbo.

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@article{arxiv.2403.02228,
  title  = {Sharp systolic inequalities for invariant tight contact forms on principal S1-bundles over S2},
  author = {Simon Vialaret},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.02228},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

23 pages; v3: minor corrections; v2: corrected a mistake in the proof of the main theorem, new section 4.2 on a sharp bound on the systolic ratio for contractible Reeb orbits