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We determine parts of the contact homology of certain contact 3-manifolds in the framework of open book decompositions, due to Giroux. We study two cases: when the monodromy map of the compatible open book is periodic and when it is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-10-01 Vincent Colin , Ko Honda

We consider a closed orientable Riemannian 3-manifold $(M,g)$ and a vector field $X$ with unit norm whose integral curves are geodesics of $g$. Any such vector field determines naturally a 2-plane bundle contained in the kernel of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-06 Adam Harris , Gabriel P. Paternain

We construct a new invariant-the trunkenness-for volume-perserving vector fields on S^3 up to volume-preserving diffeomorphism. We prove that the trunkenness is independent from the helicity and that it is the limit of a knot invariant…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-09-28 Pierre Dehornoy , Ana Rechtman

We study the local structure of vector fields on $\mathbb{R}^3$ which preserve the Martinet $1$-form $\alpha=(1+x)dy\pm zdz$. We present the classification of their singularities, up to diffeomorphisms preserving the form $\alpha$, as well…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Stavros Anastassiou

We study continuous groups of generalized Kerr-Schild transformations and the vector fields that generate them in any n-dimensional manifold with a Lorentzian metric. We prove that all these vector fields can be intrinsically characterized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 B. Coll , S. R. Hildebrandt , J. M. M. Senovilla

In this paper we adapt the method of [P. H. Baptistelli, M. Manoel and I. O. Zeli. Normal form theory for reversible equivariant vector fields. Bull. Braz. Math. Soc., New Series 47 (2016), no. 3, 935-954] to obtain normal forms of a class…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-02-16 P. H. Baptistelli , M. Manoel , I. O. Zeli

In this paper we study differential forms and vector fields on the orbit space of a proper action of a Lie group on a smooth manifold, defining them as multilinear maps on the generators of infinitesimal diffeomorphisms, respectively. This…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Larry Bates , Richard Cushman , Jędrzej Śniatycki

Contact geometry has been applied to various mathematical sciences, and it has been proposed that a contact manifold and a strictly convex function induce a dually flat space that is used in information geometry. Here, such a dually flat…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-25 Shin-itiro Goto

We construct the space of vector fields on a generic quantum group. Its elements are products of elements of the quantum group itself with left invariant vector fields. We study the duality between vector fields and 1-forms and generalize…

q-alg · Mathematics 2009-10-28 Paolo Aschieri , Peter Schupp

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

A Yamabe soliton is considered on an almost contact complex Riemannian manifold (also known as an almost contact B-metric manifold) which is obtained by a contact conformal transformation of the Reeb vector field, its dual contact 1-form,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Mancho Manev

We present a technique for recovering a vector field and a symmetric $2$-tensor field, both real-valued and compactly supported in some strictly convex bounded domain with smooth boundary in the Euclidean plane, from the sum of their…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Rahul Bhardwaj , Karishman B. Solanki

In a neighborhood of a hyperbolic periodic orbit of a volume-preserving flow on a manifold of dimension 3, we define and show the existence of a normal form for the generator of the flow that encodes the dynamics. If the flow is a contact…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Alena Erchenko , Kurt Vinhage , Yun Yang

Vector fields are a highly abstract physical concept that is often taught using visualizations. Although vector representations are particularly suitable for visualizing quantitative data, they are often confusing, especially when…

Physics Education · Physics 2024-02-20 Christoph Hoyer , Raimund Girwidz

A contact form is called K-contact if its Reeb vector field is Killing with respect to some Riemannian metric. In this paper we classify K-contact forms whose Reeb vector field admits at least one non-periodic orbit, on three-dimensional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Eugenio Bellini

We study the group of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms on a manifold. We develop a general theory of implicit generating forms. Our results generalize the classical formulas for generating functions of symplectic twist maps.

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-09-06 H. E. Lomelí , J. D. Meiss

We investigate the open Closing Lemma problem for vector fields on the 2-dimensional torus. Under the assumption of bounded type rotation number, the $C^r$ Closing Lemma is verified for smooth vector fields that are area-preserving at all…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-01-29 Simon Lloyd

In this paper, first we consider that the conformal vector field $\mathbf{X}$ is identical with the Reeb vector field $\varsigma$ and next, assume that $\mathbf{X}$ is pointwise collinear with %the Reeb vector field $\varsigma$, in both…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Uday Chand De , Arpan Sardar , Krishnendu De

Let $q:M\to M$ be a volume-preserving diffeomorphism of a smooth manifold $M$. We study the possibility to present $q$ as the Poincar\'e map, corresponding to a volume-preserving vector field on $\mathbb{T}\times M$, $\mathbb{T} =…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Dmitry Treschev

Given a vector field on a manifold M, we define a globally conserved quantity to be a differential form whose Lie derivative is exact. Integrals of conserved quantities over suitable submanifolds are constant under time evolution, the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Leonid Ryvkin , Tilmann Wurzbacher , Marco Zambon