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We establish the existence of a secondary Reeb orbit set with quantitative action and linking bounds for any contact form on the standard tight three-sphere admitting the standard transverse positive $T(p,q)$ torus knot as an elliptic Reeb…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Jo Nelson , Morgan Weiler

The Reeb space of a continuous function is the space of connected components of the level sets. In this paper we first prove that the Reeb space of a smooth function on a closed manifold with finitely many critical values has the structure…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-06-03 Osamu Saeki

Using an estimate on the number of critical points for a Morse-even function on the sphere $\mathbb S^m$, $m\ge1$, we prove a multiplicity result for orthogonal geodesic chords in Riemannian manifolds with boundary that are diffeomorphic to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-03-23 R. Giambò , F. Giannoni , P. Piccione

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

A long standing conjecture in Hamiltonian Dynamics states that every contact form on the standard contact sphere $S^{2n+1}$ has at least $n+1$ simple periodic Reeb orbits. In this work, we consider a refinement of this problem when the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Miguel Abreu , Hui Liu , Leonardo Macarini

We give a sharp lower bound for the number of geometrically distinct contractible periodic orbits of dynamically convex Reeb flows on prequantizations of symplectic manifolds that are not aspherical. Several consequences of this result are…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-03 Miguel Abreu , Leonardo Macarini

Let f be a polynomial or a rational function which has r summable critical points. We prove that there exists an r-dimensional manifold in an appropriate space containing f such that for every smooth curve in it through f, the ratio between…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-09-17 Genadi Levin

We show that for a closed Legendrian submanifold in a 1-jet bundle, if there is a sheaf with compact support, perfect stalk and singular support on that Legendrian, then (1) the number of Reeb chords has a lower bound by half of the sum of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Wenyuan Li

We investigate the effect of a hyperbolic (or, more generally, isolated as an invariant set) closed Reeb orbit on the dynamics of a Reeb flow on the $(2n-1)$-dimensional standard contact sphere, extending two results previously known for…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Erman Cineli , Viktor L. Ginzburg , Basak Z. Gurel , Marco Mazzucchelli

A theorem of Ding and Geiges states that every closed, connected contact $3$-manifold can be obtained from the standard tight contact $3$-sphere by contact $(\pm1)$-surgery along a Legendrian link. The literature also contains some examples…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Marc Kegel , Eric Stenhede , Vera Vértesi

We provide a $C^0$ counterexample to the Lagrangian Arnold conjecture in the cotangent bundle of a closed manifold. Additionally, we prove a quantitative $h$-principle for subcritical isotropic embeddings in contact manifolds, and provide…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Maksim Stokić

Exponential convergence type results are proved for holomorphic curves in the symplectization of a contact manifold $Y$ with boundary on a Legendrian cylinder. The results are proven in all dimensions, and generalize earlier work specific…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Dylan Cant

For a smooth function on a smooth manifold of a suitable class, the space of all connected components of preimages is the graph and called the {\it Reeb graph}. Reeb graphs are fundamental tools in the algebraic and differential topological…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-03-28 Naoki Kitazawa

We will prove that the Pierce-Birkhoff Conjecture holds for non-singular two-dimensional affine real algebraic varieties over real closed fields, i.e., if W is such a variety, then every piecewise polynomial function on W can be written as…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-25 Sven Wagner

A well-known conjecture of Caratheodory states that the number of umbilic points on a closed convex surface in ${\mathbb E}^3$ must be greater than one. In this paper we prove this for $C^{3+\alpha}$-smooth surfaces. The Conjecture is first…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-20 Brendan Guilfoyle , Wilhelm Klingenberg

The Cabling Conjecture of Gonz\'alez-Acu\~na and Short holds that only cable knots admit Dehn surgery to a manifold containing an essential sphere. We approach this conjecture for thin knots using Heegaard Floer homology, primarily via…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Robert DeYeso

A long-standing conjecture in Hamiltonian Dynamics states that the Reeb flow of any convex hypersurface in $\mathbb{R}^{2n}$ carries an elliptic closed orbit. Two important contributions toward its proof were given by Ekeland in 1986 and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Miguel Abreu , Leonardo Macarini

For any closed symplectic manifold, we show that the number of 1-periodic orbits of a nondegenerate Hamiltonian thereon is bounded from below by a version of total Betti number over Z of the ambient space taking account of the total Betti…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Shaoyun Bai , Guangbo Xu

As a refinement of the Weinstein conjecture, it is a natural question whether a Reeb orbit of particular types exists. D. Cristofaro-Gardiner, M. Hutchings and D. Pomerleano showed that every nondegenerate closed contact three manifold with…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Taisuke Shibata

We provide two new proofs of a theorem of Cooper, Long and Reid which asserts that, apart from an explicit finite list of exceptional manifolds, any compact orientable irreducible 3-manifold with non-empty boundary has large fundamental…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marc Lackenby