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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

It is known that every contact form on a closed three-manifold has at least two simple Reeb orbits, and a generic contact form has infinitely many. We show that if there are exactly two simple Reeb orbits, then the contact form is…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner , Umberto Hryniewicz , Michael Hutchings , Hui Liu

We show that a nondegenerate tight contact form on the 3-sphere has exactly two simple closed Reeb orbits if and only if the differential in linearized contact homology vanishes. Moreover, in this case the Floquet multipliers and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-07-10 F. Bourgeois , K. Cieliebak , T. Ekholm

On every compact, orientable, irreducible 3-manifold V which is toroidal or has torus boundary components we construct a contact 1-form whose Reeb vector field R does not have any contractible periodic orbits and is tangent to the boundary.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Vincent Colin , Ko Honda

In this paper, we extend Rabinowitz Floer homology theory which has been established and extensively studied for hypersurfaces to coisotropic submanifolds of higher codimension. With this generalized version of Rabinowitz Floer homology…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-28 Jungsoo Kang

We draw connections between the field of contact topology and the study of Beltrami fields in hydrodynamics on Riemannian manifolds in dimension three. We demonstrate an equivalence between Reeb fields (vector fields which preserve a…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 J. Etnyre , R. Ghrist

Consider the cotangent bundle of a Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ of dimension 2 or more, endowed with a twisted symplectic structure defined by a closed weakly exact 2-form $\sigma$ on $M$ whose lift to the universal cover of $M$ admits a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-28 Will J. Merry

We prove the equivalence of the sutured versions of Heegaard Floer homology, monopole Floer homology, and embedded contact homology. As applications we show that the knot versions of Heegaard Floer homology and embedded contact homology are…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Vincent Colin , Paolo Ghiggini , Ko Honda

A Reeb flow on a contact manifold is called Besse if all its orbits are periodic, possibly with different periods. We characterize contact manifolds whose Reeb flows are Besse as principal S^1-orbibundles over integral symplectic orbifolds…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Marc Kegel , Christian Lange

We exhibit a distinctly low-dimensional dynamical obstruction to the existence of Liouville cobordisms: for any contact 3-manifold admitting an exact symplectic cobordism to the tight 3-sphere, every nondegenerate contact form admits an…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-30 Alexandru Cioba , Chris Wendl

We define an invariant of contact 3-manifolds with convex boundary using Kronheimer and Mrowka's sutured instanton Floer homology theory. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first invariant of contact manifolds -- with or without…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-28 John A. Baldwin , Steven Sivek

In a previous paper, we showed that the original definition of cylindrical contact homology, with rational coefficients, is valid on a closed three-manifold with a dynamically convex contact form. However we did not show that this…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Michael Hutchings , Jo Nelson

Let $(Y,\lambda)$ be a non-degenerate contact three manifold. D. Cristfaro-Gardiner, M. Hutshings and D. Pomerleano showed that if $c_{1}(\xi=\mathrm{Ker}\lambda)$ is torsion, then the Reeb vector field of $(Y,\lambda)$ has infinity many…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Taisuke Shibata

A regular contact manifold is a manifold $M$ equipped with a globally defined contact form $\eta$ such that the topological space $M/\mathcal{R}$ of orbits (trajectories) of the Reeb vector field $\mathcal{R}$ of $\eta$ carries a smooth…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-27 Katarzyna Grabowska , Janusz Grabowski

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

In this article, we focus on the invariance property of Morse homology on noncompact manifolds. We expect to apply outcomes of this article to several types of Floer homology, thus we define Morse homology purely axiomatically and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-30 Jungsoo Kang

In this article, we investigate Reeb dynamics on $b^m$-contact manifolds, previously introduced in [MiO], which are contact away from a hypersurface $Z$ but satisfy certain transversality conditions on $Z$. The study of these contact…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Eva Miranda , Cédric Oms

Contact manifolds are odd-dimensional smooth manifolds endowed with a maximally non-integrable field of hyperplanes. They are intimately related to symplectic manifolds, i.e. even-dimensional smooth manifolds endowed with a closed…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Sheila Sandon

In this paper, we compute contact homology of some quasi-regular contact structures, which admit Hamiltonian actions of Reeb type of Lie groups. We will discuss the toric contact case, (where the torus is of Reeb type), and the case of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-02 Justin Pati

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