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We show the existence of a contractible periodic Reeb orbit for any contact structure supported by an open book whose binding can be realised as a hypersurface of restricted contact type in a subcritical Stein manifold. A key ingredient in…

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

The Arnold conjecture states that a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism of a closed and connected symplectic manifold must have at least as many fixed points as the minimal number of critical points of a smooth function on the manifold. It is well…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-30 Lev Buhovsky , Vincent Humilière , Sobhan Seyfaddini

We show that every (possibly degenerate) contact form on a closed three-manifold has at least two embedded Reeb orbits. We also show that if there are only finitely many embedded Reeb orbits, then their symplectic actions are not all…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-07 Daniel Cristofaro-Gardiner , Michael Hutchings

Helmut Hofer introduced in '93 a novel technique based on holomorphic curves to prove the Weinstein conjecture. Among the cases where these methods apply are all contact 3--manifolds $(M,\xi)$ with $\pi_2(M) \ne 0$. We modify Hofer's…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-02-01 Klaus Niederkrüger , Ana Rechtman

We prove the Arnold chord conjecture on cotangent bundles of open manifold by Gromov's nonlinear Fredholm alternative for $J-$holomorphic curves.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Renyi Ma

A classical theorem due to Wadsley implies that, on a connected contact manifold all of whose Reeb orbits are closed, there is a common period for the Reeb orbits. In this paper we show that, for any Reeb flow on a closed connected…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Daniel Cristofaro-Gardiner , Marco Mazzucchelli

In the 1960s Arnold conjectured that a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism of a closed connected symplectic manifold $(M,\omega)$ should have at least as many contractible fixed points as a smooth function on $M$ has critical points. Such a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-02 L. Asselle , M. Starostka

We study the $J-$holomorphic curves in the symplectization of the contact manifolds and prove that there exists at least one periodic Reeb orbits in any closed contact manifold with any contact form by using the well-known Gromov's…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-09-19 Renyi Ma

In this paper we give a proof of the existence of an orthogonal geodesic chord on a Riemannian manifold homeomorphic to a closed disk and with concave boundary. This kind of study is motivated by the link of the multiplicity problem with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-03-20 R. Giambo' , F. Giannoni , P. Piccione

In this article, we study the Hamiltonian dynamics on singular symplectic manifolds and prove the Arnold conjecture for a large class of $b^m$-symplectic manifolds. Novel techniques are introduced to associate smooth symplectic forms to the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Joaquim Brugués , Eva Miranda , Cédric Oms

We prove that every nondegenerate contact form on a closed connected three-manifold, such that the associated contact structure has torsion first Chern class, has either two or infinitely many simple Reeb orbits. By previous results it…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner , Michael Hutchings , Dan Pomerleano

In this paper, it is proved that under dynamically convex condition, there exist at least $[\frac{n+1}{2}]$ closed Reeb orbits on a closed contact type hypersurface in $T^*S^n$ enclosing the zero section and bounding a simply connected…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Huagui Duan , Zihao Qi

In this article, we study the dynamical properties of Reeb vector fields on b-contact manifolds. We show that in dimension 3, the number of so-called singular periodic orbits can be prescribed. These constructions illuminate some key…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Josep Fontana-McNally , Eva Miranda , Cédric Oms , Daniel Peralta-Salas

We survey some results on the existence (and non-existence) of periodic Reeb orbits on contact manifolds, both in the open and closed case. We place these statements in the context of Finsler geometry by including a proof of the folklore…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Max Dörner , Hansjörg Geiges , Kai Zehmisch

There are two long-standing conjectures in Hamiltonian dynamics concerning Reeb flows on the boundaries of star-shaped domains in $\mathbb{R}^{2n}$ ($n \geq 2$). One conjecture states that such a Reeb flow possesses either $n$ or infinitely…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Xiaorui Li , Hui Liu , Wei Wang

We use the equivalence between embedded contact homology and Seiberg-Witten Floer homology to obtain the following improvements on the Weinstein conjecture. Let Y be a closed oriented connected 3-manifold with a stable Hamiltonian…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Michael Hutchings , Clifford Henry Taubes

We develop methods for studying the smooth closing lemma for Reeb flows in any dimension using contact homology. As an application, we prove a conjecture of Irie, stating that the strong closing lemma holds for Reeb flows on ellipsoids. Our…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Julian Chaidez , Ipsita Datta , Rohil Prasad , Shira Tanny

The present paper is a continuation of the study of the interplay between the contact Hamiltonian dynamics and the moduli theory of (perturbed) contact instantons and its applications initiated in [Oh21b, Oh22a]. In this paper we prove…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Yong-Geun Oh

We study the existence of multiple closed Reeb orbits on some contact manifolds by means of $S^1$-equivariant symplectic homology and the index iteration formula. It is proved that a certain class of contact manifolds which admit…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-16 Jungsoo Kang

Introduced by Seifert and Threlfall, cylindrical neighborhoods of isolated critical points of smooth functions is an essential tool in the Lusternik- Schnirelmann theory. We conjecture that every isolated critical point of a smooth function…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Rustam Sadykov , Stanislav Trunov