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We construct a contact form on R^{2n+1}, n at least 2, equal to the standard contact form outside a compact set and defining the standard contact structure on all of R^{2n+1}, which has trapped Reeb orbits, including a torus invariant under…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-02 Hansjörg Geiges , Nena Röttgen , Kai Zehmisch

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

We give a sharp lower bound for the number of geometrically distinct contractible periodic orbits of dynamically convex Reeb flows on prequantizations of symplectic manifolds that are not aspherical. Several consequences of this result are…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-03 Miguel Abreu , Leonardo Macarini

This is (mainly) a survey of recent results on the problem of the existence of infinitely many periodic orbits for Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms and Reeb flows. We focus on the Conley conjecture, proved for a broad class of closed symplectic…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-01 Viktor L. Ginzburg , Basak Z. Gurel

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

In this paper we prove the existence of infinitely many closed Reeb orbits for a certain class of contact manifolds. This result can be viewed as a contact analogue of the Hamiltonian Conley conjecture. The manifolds for which the contact…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-08 Viktor L. Ginzburg , Basak Z. Gurel , Leonardo Macarini

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

Let $X \subset \mathbb{R}^4$ be a convex domain with smooth boundary $Y$. We use a relation between the extrinsic curvature of $Y$ and the Ruelle invariant $\text{Ru}(Y)$ of the natural Reeb flow on $Y$ to prove that there exist constants…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Julian Chaidez , Oliver Edtmair

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

We characterize which closed Reeb orbits of a dynamically convex contact form on the 3-sphere bound disk-like global surfaces of section for the Reeb flow, without any genericity assumptions. We show that these global surfaces of section…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-09 Umberto Hryniewicz

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

We consider a discrete dynamical system on a pseudo-Riemannian manifold and we determine the concept of a hyperbolic set for it. We insert a condition in the definition of a hyperbolic set which implies to the unique decomposition of a part…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-08-03 MohammadReza Molaei

We prove that for a certain class of closed monotone symplectic manifolds any Hamiltonian diffeomorphism with a hyperbolic fixed point must necessarily have infinitely many periodic orbits. Among the manifolds in this class are complex…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-14 Viktor L. Ginzburg , Basak Z. Gurel

We prove several generic existence results for infinitely many periodic orbits of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms or Reeb flows. For instance, we show that a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism of a complex projective space or Grassmannian generically…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-08-25 Viktor L. Ginzburg , Basak Z. Gurel

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

We use Lerman's contact cut construction to find a sufficient condition for Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of compact surfaces to embed into a closed 3-manifold as Poincar\'e return maps on a global surface of section for a Reeb flow. In…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Peter Albers , Hansjörg Geiges , Kai Zehmisch

We construct the Ruelle invariant of a volume preserving flow and a symplectic cocycle in any dimension and prove several properties. In the special case of the linearized Reeb flow on the boundary of a convex domain $X$ in…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Julian Chaidez , Oliver Edtmair

In this paper, we prove that if an area-preserving non-degenerate diffeomorphism on the open disk which extend smoothly to the boundary with non-degeneracy has at least 2 interior periodic points, then there are infinitely many positive…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Masayuki Asaoka , Taisuke Shibata

Consider a holomorphic contact manifold. Holomorphic discs tangent to the contact planes define a pseudometric on the manifold. This pseudometric integrates to a pseudodistance. When the pseudodistance is a distance, we call the contact…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Filippo Bracci , Benjamin McKay , Riccardo Ugolini

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