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We study a class of maps having the Collatz function (famously related to the Collatz Conjecture) as an example, under the topological and ergodic perspectives, including an approach with thermodynamic formalism. By introducing a key…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Eduardo Santana

The Conley theory has a tool to guarantee the existence of periodic trajectories in isolating neighborhoods of semi-dynamical systems. We prove that the positive trajectories generated by a piecewise-smooth vector field $Z=(X, Y)$ defined…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-07-29 Angie T. S. Romero , Ewerton R. Vieira

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 show that the actions and indexes of fixed points of a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism with finitely many periodic points must satisfy certain relations, provided that the quantum cohomology of the ambient manifold meets an algebraic…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-01 Mike Chance , Viktor L. Ginzburg , Basak Z. Gurel

We prove the following three results in Hamiltonian dynamics. 1. The Weinstein conjecture holds true for every displaceable hypersurface of contact type. 2. Every magnetic flow on a closed Riemannian manifold has contractible closed orbits…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Urs Frauenfelder , Felix Schlenk

Let $(M,g)$ be a closed Riemannian manifold and $L:TM\rightarrow \mathbb R$ be a Tonelli Lagrangian. In this thesis we study the existence of orbits of the Euler-Lagrange flow associated with $L$ satisfying suitable boundary conditions. We…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-11-25 Luca Asselle

We prove a special case of a dynamical analogue of the classical Mordell-Lang conjecture. In particular, let $\phi$ be a rational function with no superattracting periodic points other than exceptional points. If the coefficients of $\phi$…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2009-02-06 Robert L. Benedetto , Dragos Ghioca , Par Kurlberg , Thomas J. Tucker

In this paper, we prove that there exist at least $n$ geometrically distinct brake orbits on every $C^2$ compact convex symmetric hypersurface $\Sg$ in $\R^{2n}$ satisfying the reversible condition $N\Sg=\Sg$ with $N=\diag (-I_n,I_n)$. As a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-12-14 Chungen Liu , Duanzhi Zhang

We establish a cosymplectic counterpart of Banyaga's theorem by proving that the group of weakly Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms, $\Ham_{\eta,\omega}(M)$, is simple on any closed cosymplectic manifold. A key structural result, derived from Lie…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-11 S. Tchuiaga , P. Bikorimana

Let $H: \mathbb{R}^4 \to \mathbb{R}$ be any smooth function. This article introduces some arguments for extracting dynamical information about the Hamiltonian flow of $H$ from high-dimensional families of closed holomorphic curves. We work…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-03 Rohil Prasad

We introduce a direct generalization of the Weinstein conjecture to closed, Lichnerowicz exact, locally conformally symplectic manifolds, (for short $\lcs$ manifolds). This conjectures existence of certain 2-curves in the manifold, which we…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Yasha Savelyev

Let Q be a Riemannian manifold such that the Betti numbers of its free loop space with respect to some coefficient field are unbounded. We show that every contact form on its unit contangent bundle supporting the natural contact structure…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-06-20 Mark McLean

In this paper we produce a lower bound for the number of periodic orbits of certain Hamiltonian vector fields near Bott-nondegenerate symplectic critical submanifolds. This result is then related to the problem of finding closed orbits of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ely Kerman

Let $M$ be a closed manifold and consider the Hamiltonian flow associated to an autonomous Tonelli Hamiltonian $H:T^*M\rightarrow \mathbb R$ and a twisted symplectic form. In this paper we study the existence of contractible periodic orbits…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-13 Luca Asselle , Gabriele Benedetti

We show that, on a closed semipositive symplectic manifold with semisimple quantum homology, any Hamiltonian diffeomorphism possessing more contractible fixed points, counted homologically, than the total Betti number of the manifold, must…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Marcelo S. Atallah , Han Lou

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

This paper concerns the existence of multiple rotating periodic solutions for $2n$ dimensional convex Hamiltonian systems. For the symplectic orthogonal matrix $Q$, the rotating periodic solution has the form of $z(t+T)=Qz(t)$, which might…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Jiamin Xing , Xue Yang , Yong Li

We prove that if a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism of a closed monotone symplectic manifold with semisimple quantum homology has more contractible fixed points, counted homologically, than the total dimension of the homology of the manifold,…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-22 Egor Shelukhin

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

An area-preserving homeomorphism isotopic to the identity is said to have rational rotation direction if its rotation vector is a real multiple of a rational class. We give a short proof that any area-preserving homeomorphism of a compact…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Rohil Prasad