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We use the Boothby-Wang fibration to construct certain simply connected K-contact manifolds and we give sufficient and necessary conditions on when such K-contact manifolds are homeomorphic to the odd dimensional spheres. If the symplectic…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-22 Hui Li

We exhibit the first examples of contact structures on $S^{2n-1}$ with $n\geq 4$ and on $S^3\times S^2$, all equipped with their standard smooth structures, for which every Reeb flow has positive topological entropy. As a new technical tool…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-21 Marcelo R. R. Alves , Matthias Meiwes

We prove that every nondegenerate contact form on a closed connected three-manifold, such that the associated contact structure has torsion first Chern class, has either two or infinitely many simple Reeb orbits. By previous results it…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner , Michael Hutchings , Dan Pomerleano

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 give criteria for the existence of bifurcations of symmetric periodic orbits in reversible Hamiltonian systems in terms of local equivariant Lagrangian Rabinowitz Floer homology. As an example, we consider the family of the direct…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Joontae Kim , Seongchan Kim , Myeonggi Kwon

In this paper we use broken book decompositions to study Reeb flows on closed $3$-manifolds. We show that if the Liouville measure of a nondegenerate contact form can be approximated by periodic orbits, then there is a Birkhoff section for…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Vincent Colin , Pierre Dehornoy , Umberto Hryniewicz , Ana Rechtman

We established existence of periodic Reeb orbits for a large class of tight contact structures on closed 3-manifolds, notably the Stein fillable structures, based on a fundamental theorem of Cliff Taubes on symplectic 4-manifolds.

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Weimin Chen

The first result of this paper is that every contact form on $\mathbb{R} P^3$ sufficiently $C^\infty$-close to a dynamically convex contact form admits an elliptic-parabolic closed Reeb orbit which is $2$-unknotted, has self-linking number…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-12 Umberto L. Hryniewicz , Pedro A. S. Salomão

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

We consider Hamiltonian systems restricted to the hypersurfaces of contact type and obtain a partial version of the Arnold-Liouville theorem: the system not need to be integrable on the whole phase space, while the invariant hypersurface is…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-05 Bozidar Jovanovic , Vladimir Jovanovic

In this paper, we prove (1): for any closed contact three-manifold with a $C^\infty$-generic contact form, the union of periodic Reeb orbits is dense, (2): for any closed surface with a $C^\infty$-generic Riemannian metric, the union of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-23 Kei Irie

In this article we extend results of Grove and Tanaka on the existence of isometry-invariant geodesics to the setting of Reeb flows and strict contactomorphisms. Specifically, we prove that if M is a closed connected manifold with the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-20 Will J. Merry , Kathrin Naef

The objective of this note is to prove an existence result for brake orbits in classical Hamiltonian systems (which was first proved by S.V.Bolotin) by using Floer theory. To this end, we compute an open string analogue of symplectic…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-22 Kei Irie

The original Arnold chord conjecture states that every closed Legendrian submanifold of the standard contact sphere $S^{2n-1}$ admits a Reeb chord with distinct endpoints with respect to any contact form. In this paper, we prove this…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Jungsoo Kang

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

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

We show that the presence of a non-contractible one-periodic orbit of a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism of a connected closed symplectic manifold $(M,\omega)$ implies the existence of infinitely many non-contractible simple periodic orbits,…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Ryuma Orita

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

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

In this paper we study the dynamics near the equilibrium point of a family of Hamiltonian systems in the neighborhood of a $0^2 iw$ resonance. The existence of a family of periodic orbits surrounding the equilibrium is well-known and we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-01-09 Tiphaine Jézéquel , Patrick Bernard , Éric Lombardi