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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 consider Reeb dynamics on the 3-sphere associated to a tight contact form. Our main result gives necessary and sufficient conditions for a periodic Reeb orbit to bound a disk-like global section for the Reeb flow, when the contact form…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Umberto Hryniewicz , Pedro A. S. Salomão

We establish a criterion that ensures a bounded almost complex curve in a bounded almost complex 4-manifold minimizes genus amongst all smooth surfaces that share its homology class and the transverse link on its boundary. An immediate…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Matthew Hedden , Katherine Raoux

We introduce a local version of contact homology for an isolated periodic orbit of the Reeb flow and prove that its rank is uniformly bounded for isolated iterations. Several applications are obtained, including a generalization of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-24 Umberto Hryniewicz , Leonardo Macarini

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

Nondegenerate periodic orbits in three-dimensional Reeb flows can be classified into three types, positive hyperbolic, negative hyperbolic and elliptic. As a problem which involves refining the three-dimensional Weinstein conjecture, D.…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Taisuke Shibata

We study nontrivial entropy invariants in the class of parabolic flows on homogeneous spaces, quasi-unipotent flows. We show that topological complexity (ie, slow entropy) can be computed directly from the Jordan block structure of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Adam Kanigowski , Kurt Vinhage , Daren Wei

This paper and its sequel prove that every Legendrian knot in a closed three-manifold with a contact form has a Reeb chord. The present paper deduces this result from another theorem, asserting that an exact symplectic cobordism between…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-01-10 Michael Hutchings , Clifford Henry Taubes

We prove that in dimension 3 every nondegenerate contact form is carried by a broken book decomposition. As an application we get that if M is a closed irreducible oriented 3-manifold that is not a graph manifold, for example a hyperbolic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Vincent Colin , Pierre Dehornoy , Ana Rechtman

We consider the problem of realizing tight contact structures on closed orientable three-manifolds. By applying the theorems of Hofer et al., one may deduce tightness from dynamical properties of (Reeb) flows transverse to the contact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John Etnyre , Robert Ghrist

We study the topological entropy of the magnetic flow on a closed riemannian surface. We prove that if the magnetic flow has a non-hyperbolic closed orbit in some energy set T^cM= E^{-1}(c), then there exists an exact $…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-07-23 José Antônio Gonçalves Miranda

A flow-spine of a 3-manifold is a spine admitting a flow that is transverse to the spine, where the flow in the complement of the spine is diffeomorphic to a constant flow in an open ball. We say that a contact structure on a closed,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Ippei Ishii , Masaharu Ishikawa , Yuya Koda , Hironobu Naoe

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

In this paper, we continue the quest to understand the interplay between wrapped Floer homology barcode and topological entropy. Wrapped Floer homology barcode entropy is defined as the exponential growth, with respect to the left…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Rafael A. Fernandes

We prove that, for a $C^\infty$-generic contact form $\lambda$ adapted to a given contact distribution on a closed three-manifold, there exists a sequence of periodic Reeb orbits which is equidistributed with respect to $d\lambda$. This is…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-08 Kei Irie

In this article we study persistence features of topological entropy and periodic orbit growth of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms on surfaces with respect to Hofer's metric. We exhibit stability of these dynamical quantities in a rather strong…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-10 Arnon Chor , Matthias Meiwes

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

Steady fluid flows have very special topology. In this paper we describe necessary and sufficient conditions on the vorticity function of a 2D ideal flow on a surface with or without boundary, for which there exists a steady flow among…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-19 Anton Izosimov , Boris Khesin

We study non-degenerate Reeb flows arising from perfect contact forms, i.e., the forms with vanishing contact homology differential. In particular, we obtain upper bounds on the number of simple closed Reeb orbits for such forms on a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-14 Basak Z. Gurel

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