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In this paper, it is proved that under dynamically convex condition, there exist at least $[\frac{n+1}{2}]$ closed Reeb orbits on a closed contact type hypersurface in $T^*S^n$ enclosing the zero section and bounding a simply connected…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Huagui Duan , Zihao Qi

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 construct a contact form on R^{2n+1}, n at least 2, equal to the standard contact form outside a compact set and defining the standard contact structure on all of R^{2n+1}, which has trapped Reeb orbits, including a torus invariant under…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-02 Hansjörg Geiges , Nena Röttgen , Kai Zehmisch

This is (mainly) a survey of recent results on the problem of the existence of infinitely many periodic orbits for Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms and Reeb flows. We focus on the Conley conjecture, proved for a broad class of closed symplectic…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-01 Viktor L. Ginzburg , Basak Z. Gurel

We consider an integrable Hamiltonian system weakly coupled with a pendulum-type system. For each energy level within some range, the uncoupled system is assumed to possess a normally hyperbolic invariant manifold diffeomorphic to a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Marian Gidea

We establish multiplicity results for geometrically distinct contractible closed Reeb orbits of non-degenerate contact forms on a broad class of prequantization bundles. The results hold under certain index requirements on the contact form…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-14 Viktor L. Ginzburg , Basak Z. Gurel , Leonardo Macarini

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

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 study Reeb dynamics on the three-sphere equipped with a tight contact form and an anti-contact involution. We prove the existence of a symmetric periodic orbit and provide necessary and sufficient conditions for it to bound an invariant…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Seongchan Kim

Inspired by Katok's examples of Finsler metrics with a small number of closed geodesics, we present two results on Reeb flows with finitely many periodic orbits. The first result is concerned with a contact-geometric description of magnetic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-05-22 Peter Albers , Hansjörg Geiges , Kai Zehmisch

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

A contact manifold admittting a supporting contact form without contractible Reeb orbits is called hypertight. In this paper we construct a Rabinowitz Floer homology associated to an arbitrary supporting contact form for a hypertight…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-05 Matthias Meiwes , Kathrin Naef

We consider Reeb flows on the tight $3$-sphere admitting a pair of closed orbits forming a Hopf link. If the rotation numbers associated to the transverse linearized dynamics at these orbits fail to satisfy a certain resonance condition…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-04-03 Umberto Hryniewicz , Al Momin , Pedro A. S. Salomão

Our purpose here is to adapt the results of Geodesic circle foliations for Reeb flows or Hamiltonian flows on contact manifolds. Consequently, all periods are exactly the same if the contact manifold is connected and all orbits on the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Yoshihisa Miyanishi

We develop methods for studying the smooth closing lemma for Reeb flows in any dimension using contact homology. As an application, we prove a conjecture of Irie, stating that the strong closing lemma holds for Reeb flows on ellipsoids. Our…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Julian Chaidez , Ipsita Datta , Rohil Prasad , Shira Tanny

We develop a variant of Lusternik-Schnirelmann theory for the shift operator in equivariant Floer and symplectic homology. Our key result is that the spectral invariants are strictly decreasing under the action of the shift operator when…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-02 Viktor L. Ginzburg , Basak Z. Gurel

Rabinowitz-Floer homology is the Morse-Bott homology in the sense of Floer associated with the Rabinowitz action functional introduced by Kai Cieliebak and Urs Frauenfelder in 2009. In this manuscript, we consider a generalisation of this…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Yannis Bähni

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

We prove that for a certain class of closed monotone symplectic manifolds any Hamiltonian diffeomorphism with a hyperbolic fixed point must necessarily have infinitely many periodic orbits. Among the manifolds in this class are complex…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-14 Viktor L. Ginzburg , Basak Z. Gurel

We prove a $C^\infty$ closing lemma for Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of closed surfaces. This is a consequence of a $C^\infty$ closing lemma for Reeb flows on closed contact three-manifolds, which was recently proved as an application of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-15 Masayuki Asaoka , Kei Irie