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Let $M^n$ be a complete, open Riemannian manifold with $\Ric \geq 0$. In 1994, Grigori Perelman showed that there exists a constant $\delta_{n}>0$, depending only on the dimension of the manifold, such that if the volume growth satisfies…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-12-17 Michael Munn

We define the $S^1$-equivariant Rabinowitz-Floer homology of a bounding contact hypersurface $\Sigma$ in an exact symplectic manifold, and show by a geometric argument that it vanishes if $\Sigma$ is displaceable. In the appendix we…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-26 Urs Frauenfelder , Felix Schlenk

Let $M$ be a compact $n$-manifold of $\operatorname{Ric}_M\ge (n-1)H$ ($H$ is a constant). We are concerned with the following space form rigidity: $M$ is isometric to a space form of constant curvature $H$ under either of the following…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-25 Lina Chen , Xiaochun Rong , Shicheng Xu

We study compatible and associated metrics for a contact-symplectic pair $(\eta , \omega)$ on a manifold. We show that the integral curves of the Reeb vector field are geodesics for any compatible metric. We prove that all associated…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Amine Hadjar

A translated point of a contactomorphism $\phi$ on a contact manifold with contact form $\alpha$ is a point $p$ where $\alpha$ is preserved under $\phi$ and whose image under $\phi$ lies in the same Reeb trajectory. They were introduced as…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-16 Aaron Gootjes-Dreesbach

We consider partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms on compact manifolds where the unstable and stable foliations stably carry some unique non-trivial homologies. We prove the following two results: if the center foliation is one dimensional,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-02-19 Yongxia Hua , Radu Saghin , Zhihong Xia

In recent times a great amount of progress has been achieved in symplectic and contact geometry, leading to the development of powerful invariants of 3-manifolds such as Heegaard Floer homology and embedded contact homology. These…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-12-11 Daniel V. Mathews

We establish new strong lower bounds on the (subnormal) subgroup growth of a large class of groups. This includes the fundamental groups of all finite-volume hyperbolic 3-manifolds and all (free non-abelian)-by-cyclic groups. The lower…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Marc Lackenby

Barcode entropy is an invariant of a Hamiltonian system -- a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism or a Reeb flow -- measuring its Morse or Floer theoretic complexity at a small scale. More specifically, it is the exponential growth rate of the number…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Erman Cineli , Viktor L. Ginzburg , Basak Z. Gurel , Marco Mazzucchelli

For a topological flow $(V,\phi)$ - i.e., $V$ is a linearly compact vector space and $\phi$ a continuous endomorphism of $V$ - we gain a deep understanding of the relationship between $(V,\phi)$ and the Bernoulli shift: a topological flow…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-22 Ilaria Castellano

We establish a straightforward estimate for the number of open sets with fundamental group constraints needed to cover the total space of fibrations. This leads to vanishing results for simplicial volume and minimal volume entropy, e.g.,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-11-10 Clara Loeh , Marco Moraschini

In this paper, we study confoliations in dimensions higher than three mostly from the perspective of symplectic fillability. Our main result is that Massot-Niederkr\"uger-Wendl's bordered Legendrian open book, an object that obstructs the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Robert Cardona , Fabio Gironella

Inspired by the idea of Colding-Minicozzi in [CM1], we define (mean curvature flow) entropy for submanifolds in a general ambient Riemannian manifold. In particular, this entropy is equivalent to area growth of a closed submanifold in a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Ao Sun

Through the use of sub-Riemannian metrics we provide quantitative estimates for the maximal tight neighbourhood of a Reeb orbit on a three-dimensional contact manifold. Under appropriate geometric conditions we show how to construct closed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Andrei A. Agrachev , Stefano Baranzini , Eugenio Bellini , Luca Rizzi

Let O be a compact orientable 3-orbifold with non-empty singular locus and a finite volume hyperbolic structure. (Equivalently, O is the quotient of hyperbolic 3-space by a lattice in PSL(2,C) with torsion.) Then we prove that O has a tower…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marc Lackenby

A contact form on the tight $3$-sphere $(S^3,\xi_0)$ is called weakly convex if the Conley-Zehnder index of every Reeb orbit is at least $2$. In this article, we study Reeb flows of weakly convex contact forms on $(S^3,\xi_0)$ admitting a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Naiara V. de Paulo , Umberto Hryniewicz , Seongchan Kim , Pedro A. S. Salomão

We show that time-one maps of transitive Anosov flows of compact manifolds are accumulated by diffeomorphisms robustly satisfying the following dichotomy: either all of the measures of maximal entropy are non-hyperbolic, or there are…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-12-09 Jérôme Buzzi , Todd Fisher , Ali Tahzibi

We study the dynamics and symplectic topology of energy hypersurfaces of mechanical Hamiltonians on twisted cotangent bundles. We pay particular attention to periodic orbits, displaceability, stability and the contact type property, and the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 K. Cieliebak , U. Frauenfelder , G. P. Paternain

Let F be a foliation in a closed 3-manifold with negatively curved fundamental group and suppose that F is almost transverse to a quasigeodesic pseudo-Anosov flow. We show that the leaves of the foliation in the universal cover extend…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sergio R. Fenley

In this paper it is proved that near a compact, invariant, proper subset of a continuous flow on a compact, connected metric space, at least one, out of twenty eight relevant dynamical phenomena, will necessarily occur. This result shows…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-02-14 Pedro Teixeira