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We study compatible contact structures of fibered Seifert multilinks in homology 3-spheres and especially give a necessary and sufficient condition for the contact structure to be tight in the case where the Seifert fibration is positively…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-11-30 Masaharu Ishikawa

We characterize which closed Reeb orbits of a dynamically convex contact form on the 3-sphere bound disk-like global surfaces of section for the Reeb flow, without any genericity assumptions. We show that these global surfaces of section…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-09 Umberto Hryniewicz

We prove that every Reeb flow on a closed connected three-manifold has either two or infinitely many simple periodic orbits, assuming that the associated contact structure has torsion first Chern class. As a special case, we prove a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-22 Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner , Umberto Hryniewicz , Michael Hutchings , Hui Liu

Let A be an affine variety inside a complex N dimensional vector space which has an isolated singularity at the origin. The intersection of A with a very small sphere turns out to be a contact manifold called the link of A. Any contact…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-30 Mark McLean

A contact manifold admittting a supporting contact form without contractible Reeb orbits is called hypertight. In this paper we construct a Rabinowitz Floer homology associated to an arbitrary supporting contact form for a hypertight…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-05 Matthias Meiwes , Kathrin Naef

We consider an integrable Hamiltonian system weakly coupled with a pendulum-type system. For each energy level within some range, the uncoupled system is assumed to possess a normally hyperbolic invariant manifold diffeomorphic to a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Marian Gidea

In this paper, we prove (1): for any closed contact three-manifold with a $C^\infty$-generic contact form, the union of periodic Reeb orbits is dense, (2): for any closed surface with a $C^\infty$-generic Riemannian metric, the union of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-23 Kei Irie

We present new explicit tight and overtwisted contact structures on the (round) 3-sphere and the (flat) 3-torus for which the ambient metric is weakly compatible. Our proofs are based on the construction of nonvanishing curl eigenfields…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Daniel Peralta-Salas , Radu Slobodeanu

A non-degenerate contact form is lacunary if the indexes of every contractible periodic Reeb orbit have the same parity. To the best of our knowledge, every contact form with finitely many periodic orbits known so far is non-degenerate and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Miguel Abreu , Leonardo Macarini

We study the multiplicity problem for prime closed orbits of dynamically convex Reeb flows on the boundary of a star-shaped domain in $\mathbb{R}^{2n}$. The first of our two main results asserts that such a flow has at least $n$ prime…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Erman Cineli , Viktor L. Ginzburg , Basak Z. Gurel

We use Lerman's contact cut construction to find a sufficient condition for Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of compact surfaces to embed into a closed 3-manifold as Poincar\'e return maps on a global surface of section for a Reeb flow. In…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Peter Albers , Hansjörg Geiges , Kai Zehmisch

We prove the non--triviality of the Reeb flow for the (2n+1)--dimensional standard contact spheres inside the fundamental group of their contactomorphism group, n greater than 3. The argument uses the existence of homotopically non--trivial…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-30 Roger Casals , Francisco Presas

We prove the existence of an elliptic Reeb orbit for some contact forms on the real projective three space $\mathbb{R} P^3$. The main ingredient of the proof is the existence of a distinguished pseudoholomorphic curve in the symplectization…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Brayan Ferreira

We exhibit the first examples of contact structures on $S^{2n-1}$ with $n\geq 4$ and on $S^3\times S^2$, all equipped with their standard smooth structures, for which every Reeb flow has positive topological entropy. As a new technical tool…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-21 Marcelo R. R. Alves , Matthias Meiwes

We give a dynamical characterisation of odd-dimensional balls within the class of all contact manifolds whose boundary is a standard even-dimensional sphere. The characterisation is in terms of the non-existence of short periodic Reeb…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-11 Hansjörg Geiges , Kai Zehmisch

Consider a symplectic surface in a three-dimensional contact manifold with boundary on Reeb orbits (periodic orbits of the Reeb vector field). We assume that the rotation numbers of the boundary Reeb orbits satisfy a certain inequality, and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Michael Hutchings

The aim of this article is to apply a Floer theory to study symmetric periodic Reeb orbits. We define positive equivariant wrapped Floer homology using a (anti-)symplectic involution on a Liouville domain and investigate its algebraic…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-10 Joontae Kim , Seongchan Kim , Myeonggi Kwon

We consider Reeb flows on the tight $3$-sphere admitting a pair of closed orbits forming a Hopf link. If the rotation numbers associated to the transverse linearized dynamics at these orbits fail to satisfy a certain resonance condition…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-04-03 Umberto Hryniewicz , Al Momin , Pedro A. S. Salomão

The first two authors showed in~\cite{AM1} how the Conley-Zehnder index of any contractible periodic Reeb orbit of a non-degenerate toric contact form on a good toric contact manifold with zero first Chern class, i.e. a Gorenstein toric…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-21 Miguel Abreu , Leonardo Macarini , Miguel Moreira

In this note, we consider contractible loops of contactomorphisms that are positive over some non-empty closed subset of a contact manifold. Such closed subsets are called immaterial. We argue that the complement of a Reeb-invariant…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Igor Uljarević