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A closed contact manifold is called Besse when all its Reeb orbits are closed, and Zoll when they have the same minimal period. In this paper, we provide a characterization of Besse contact forms for convex contact spheres and Riemannian…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Viktor L. Ginzburg , Basak Z. Gurel , Marco Mazzucchelli

We study the existence of multiple closed Reeb orbits on some contact manifolds by means of $S^1$-equivariant symplectic homology and the index iteration formula. It is proved that a certain class of contact manifolds which admit…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-16 Jungsoo Kang

For Reeb vector fields on closed 3-manifolds, cylindrical contact homology is used to show that the existence of a set of closed Reeb orbit with certain knotting/linking properties implies the existence of other Reeb orbits with other…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Al Momin

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 use the equivalence between embedded contact homology and Seiberg-Witten Floer homology to obtain the following improvements on the Weinstein conjecture. Let Y be a closed oriented connected 3-manifold with a stable Hamiltonian…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Michael Hutchings , Clifford Henry Taubes

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

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 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

The aim of this article is to apply a Floer theory to study symmetric periodic Reeb orbits. We define positive equivariant wrapped Floer homology using a (anti-)symplectic involution on a Liouville domain and investigate its algebraic…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-10 Joontae Kim , Seongchan Kim , Myeonggi Kwon

We use Hamiltonian Floer theory to recover and generalize a classic rigidity theorem of Ekelend and Lasry. That theorem can be rephrased as an assertion about the existence of multiple closed Reeb orbits for certain tight contact forms on…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Ely Kerman

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

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

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

We investigate the effect of a hyperbolic (or, more generally, isolated as an invariant set) closed Reeb orbit on the dynamics of a Reeb flow on the $(2n-1)$-dimensional standard contact sphere, extending two results previously known for…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Erman Cineli , Viktor L. Ginzburg , Basak Z. Gurel , Marco Mazzucchelli

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

Let $M$ be a three-dimensional contact manifold and $\psi:D\setminus\{0\}\to M\times{\Bbb R}$ a finite-energy pseudoholomorphic map from a punctured disc in ${\Bbb C}$, that is asymptotic to a periodic orbit of the Reeb vector field. This…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Adam Harris , Krzysztof Wysocki

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

Let A be an affine variety inside a complex N dimensional vector space which has an isolated singularity at the origin. The intersection of A with a very small sphere turns out to be a contact manifold called the link of A. Any contact…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-30 Mark McLean

We exhibit transverse knot types on the standard contact $3$-sphere that cannot be realized as periodic Reeb orbits of a dynamically convex contact form. In particular, such transverse knot types do not arise as closed characteristics of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Umberto L. Hryniewicz , Pedro A. S. Salomão , Richard Siefring

In this note, we consider contractible loops of contactomorphisms that are positive over some non-empty closed subset of a contact manifold. Such closed subsets are called immaterial. We argue that the complement of a Reeb-invariant…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Igor Uljarević
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