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Let M be a weakly monotone symplectic manifold, and H be a time-dependent Hamiltonian; we assume that the periodic orbits of the corresponding time-dependent Hamiltonian vector field are non-degenerate. We construct a refined version of the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-22 Kaoru Ono , Andrei Pajitnov

We use Hamiltonian Floer theory to recover and generalize a classic rigidity theorem of Ekelend and Lasry. That theorem can be rephrased as an assertion about the existence of multiple closed Reeb orbits for certain tight contact forms on…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Ely Kerman

The present paper is a review of counterexamples to the ``Hamiltonian Seifert conjecture'' or, more generally, of examples of Hamiltonian systems having no periodic orbits on a compact energy level. We begin with the discussion of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Viktor L. Ginzburg

In this article, we first give a proof on the Arnold chord conjecture which states that every Reeb flow has at least as many Reeb chords as a smooth function on the Legendre submanifold has critical points on contact manifold. Second, we…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2013-09-27 Renyi Ma

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

The periodic orbit conjecture states that, on closed manifolds, the set of lengths of the orbits of a non-vanishing vector field all whose orbits are closed admits an upper bound. This conjecture is known to be false in general due to a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Robert Cardona

We prove the existence of infinitely many periodic points of symplectomorphisms isotopic to the identity if they admit at least one (non-contractible) hyperbolic periodic orbit and satisfy some condition on its flux. The obtained periodic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-08-27 Marta Batoréo

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

We prove that for any compact toric symplectic manifold, if a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism admits more fixed points, counted homologically, than the total Betti number, then it has infinitely many simple periodic points. This provides a vast…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-12 Shaoyun Bai , Guangbo Xu

We prove the existence of infinitely many periodic orbits of symplectomorphisms isotopic to the identity if they admit at least one hyperbolic periodic orbit and satisfy some condition on the flux. Our result is proved for a certain class…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-27 Marta Batoréo

For Hamiltonian flows we establish the existence of periodic orbits on a sequence of level sets approaching a Bott-nondegenerate symplectic extremum of the Hamiltonian. As a consequence, we show that a charge on a compact manifold with a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Viktor L. Ginzburg , Ely Kerman

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

We prove that every non-degenerate Reeb flow on a closed contact manifold $M$ admitting a strong symplectic filling $W$ with vanishing first Chern class carries at least two geometrically distinct closed orbits provided that the positive…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Miguel Abreu , Jean Gutt , Jungsoo Kang , Leonardo Macarini

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

The main theme of this paper is a relative version of the almost existence theorem for periodic orbits of autonomous Hamiltonian systems. We show that almost all low levels of a function on a geometrically bounded symplectically aspherical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Viktor L. Ginzburg , Basak Z. Gurel

We prove a Lagrangian analogue of the Conley conjecture: given a 1-periodic Tonelli Lagrangian with global flow on a closed configuration space, the associated Euler-Lagrange system has infinitely many periodic solutions. More precisely, we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-12-07 Marco Mazzucchelli

We show that whenever a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism or a Reeb flow has a finite number of periodic orbits, the mean indices of these orbits must satisfy a resonance relation, provided that the ambient manifold meets some natural…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-07-10 Viktor L. Ginzburg , Ely Kerman

We prove that any Hamiltonian diffeomorphism of a closed symplectic manifold equipped with an atoroidal symplectic form has simple non-contractible periodic orbits of arbitrarily large period, provided that the diffeomorphism has a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Basak Z. Gurel

If $f:\mathbb{R}^2\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^2$ is an orientation reversing fixed point free homeomorphism on the plane $\mathbb{R}^2$ with no unbounded orbit, then $f$ has infinitely many periodic orbits.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Enhui Shi , Ziqi Yu

We prove that for a $C^\infty$-generic contact form defining a given co-oriented contact structure on a closed $3$-manifold, every hyperbolic periodic Reeb orbit admits a transverse homoclinic connection in each of the branches of its…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Vincent Colin , Umberto Hryniewicz , Ana Rechtman