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We draw connections between contact topology and Maxwell fields in vacuo on 3-dimensional closed Riemannian submanifolds in 4-dimensional Lorentzian manifolds. This is accomplished by showing that contact topological methods can be applied…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Shin-itiro Goto

We consider the Lie algebra of all vector fields on a contact manifold as a module over the Lie subalgebra of contact vector fields. This module is split into a direct sum of two submodules: the contact algebra itself and the space of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Valentin Ovsienko

We prove the following dichotomy for vector fields in a C1-residual subset of volume-preserving flows: for Lebesgue almost every point all Lyapunov exponents equal to zero or its orbit has a dominated splitting. As a consequence if we have…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-10-22 Mario Bessa , Jorge Rocha

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

We consider the general nonvanishing, divergence-free vector fields defined on a domain in three space and tangent to its boundary. Based on the theory of finite type invariants, we define a family of invariants for such fields, in the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-20 R. Komendarczyk , I. Volic

We define a notion of residue field domination for valued fields which generalizes stable domination in algebraically closed valued fields. We prove that a real closed valued field is dominated by the sorts internal to the residue field,…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Clifton Ealy , Deirdre Haskell , Jana Maříková

We construct the space of vector fields on quantum groups . Its elements are products of the known left invariant vector fields with the elements of the quantum group itself. We also study the duality between vector fields and 1-forms. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Aschieri

Given an open book decomposition of a contact three man-ifold (M, $\xi$) with pseudo-Anosov monodromy and fractional Dehn twist coefficient c = k n, we construct a Legendrian knot $\Lambda$ close to the stable foliation of a page, together…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Marcelo Alves , Vincent Colin , Ko Honda

A vector field s on a Riemannian manifold M is said to be harmonic if there exists a member of a 2-parameter family of generalised Cheeger-Gromoll metrics on TM with respect to which s is a harmonic section. If M is a simply-connected…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-28 M. Benyounes , E. Loubeau , C. M. Wood

We give a numerical condition for right-handedness of a dynamically convex Reeb flow on the $3$-sphere. Our condition is stated in terms of an asymptotic ratio between the amount of rotation of the linearised flow and the linking number of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Anna Florio , Umberto Hryniewicz

We prove that every non-degenerate Reeb flow on a closed contact manifold $M$ admitting a strong symplectic filling $W$ with vanishing first Chern class carries at least two geometrically distinct closed orbits provided that the positive…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Miguel Abreu , Jean Gutt , Jungsoo Kang , Leonardo Macarini

We present new, explicit, volume-preserving vector fields for polynomial divergence-free vector fields of arbitrary degree (both positive and negative). The main idea is to decompose the divergence polynomial by means of an appropriate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-10 Huiyan Xue , Antonella Zanna

We prove a sufficient condition for the existence of explicit first integrals for vector fields which admit an integrating factor. This theorem recovers and extends previous results in the literature on the integrability of vector fields…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-06-15 Jaume Llibre , Daniel Peralta-Salas

The purpose of this paper is to explore, in a space of four-dimensions, the possible forms that second-order, bi-scalar-vector-tensor field equations derivable from a variational principle can assume. In order to restrict this enormous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Gregory W. Horndeski

Recall that a vector field on an n-dimensional differentiable manifold M is a mapping X defined on M with values in the tangent bundle TM that assigns to each point $x\in M$ a vector X(x) in the tangent space $T_x M$. A vector field may be…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 C. Udriste , A. Udriste

For any compact oriented manifold $M$, we show that that the top degree multi-vector fields transverse to the zero section of $\wedge^{\text{top}}TM$ are classified, up to orientation preserving diffeomorphism, in terms of the topology of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-01 David Martinez Torres

We study the Lie algebra of polynomial vector fields on a smooth Danielewski surface of the form $x y = p(z)$ with $x,y,z \in \mathbb{C}$. We provide explicitly given generators to show that: 1. The Lie algebra of polynomial vector fields…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Rafael B. Andrist

We establish normal forms for conformal vector fields on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds in the neighborhood of a singularity. For real-analytic Lorentzian manifolds, we show that the vector field is analytically linearizable or the manifold is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-09-19 Charles Frances , Karin Melnick

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

This paper proves the following: A volume preserving vector field on a compact 3-manifold whose dual 2-form is exact can not generate uniquely ergodic dynamics unless its asymptotic linking number is zero.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-11-26 Clifford Henry Taubes