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In this article we extend results of Grove and Tanaka on the existence of isometry-invariant geodesics to the setting of Reeb flows and strict contactomorphisms. Specifically, we prove that if M is a closed connected manifold with the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-20 Will J. Merry , Kathrin Naef

We prove that every nondegenerate contact form on a closed connected three-manifold, such that the associated contact structure has torsion first Chern class, has either two or infinitely many simple Reeb orbits. By previous results it…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner , Michael Hutchings , Dan Pomerleano

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

In this article, we study the dynamical properties of Reeb vector fields on b-contact manifolds. We show that in dimension 3, the number of so-called singular periodic orbits can be prescribed. These constructions illuminate some key…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Josep Fontana-McNally , Eva Miranda , Cédric Oms , Daniel Peralta-Salas

In this paper we study the growth rate of a version of Legendrian contact homology, which we call strip Legendrian contact homology, in 3-dimensional contact manifolds and its relation to the topological entropy of Reeb flows. We show that:…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-10 Marcelo R. R. Alves

We show that whenever a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism or a Reeb flow has a finite number of periodic orbits, the mean indices of these orbits must satisfy a resonance relation, provided that the ambient manifold meets some natural…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-07-10 Viktor L. Ginzburg , Ely Kerman

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 establish the existence of a secondary Reeb orbit set with quantitative action and linking bounds for any contact form on the standard tight three-sphere admitting the standard transverse positive $T(p,q)$ torus knot as an elliptic Reeb…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Jo Nelson , Morgan Weiler

We study the $J-$holomorphic curves in the symplectization of the contact manifolds and prove that there exists at least one periodic Reeb orbits in any closed contact manifold with any contact form by using the well-known Gromov's…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-09-19 Renyi Ma

We show that any co-oriented closed contact manifold of dimension at least five admits a contact form such that the contact volume is arbitrarily small but the Reeb flow admits a global hypersurface of section with the property that the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-03 Murat Sağlam

In this paper, we provide new and simpler proofs of two theorems of Gluck and Harrison on contact structures induced by great circle or line fibrations. Furthermore, we prove that a geodesic vector field whose Jacobi tensor is parallel…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Tilman Becker

We develop a forcing theory of topological entropy for Reeb flows in dimension $3$. A transverse link $L$ in a closed contact $3$-manifold $(Y,\xi)$ is said to force topological entropy if $(Y,\xi)$ admits a Reeb flow with vanishing…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Marcelo R. R. Alves , Abror Pirnapasov

We prove that on closed Riemannian manifolds with infinite abelian, but not cyclic, fundamental group, any isometry that is homotopic to the identity possesses infinitely many invariant geodesics. We conjecture that the result remains true…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Marco Mazzucchelli

The original Arnold chord conjecture states that every closed Legendrian submanifold of the standard contact sphere $S^{2n-1}$ admits a Reeb chord with distinct endpoints with respect to any contact form. In this paper, we prove this…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Jungsoo Kang

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 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 consider Reeb flows on the tight $3$-sphere admitting a pair of closed orbits forming a Hopf link. If the rotation numbers associated to the transverse linearized dynamics at these orbits fail to satisfy a certain resonance condition…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-04-03 Umberto Hryniewicz , Al Momin , Pedro A. S. Salomão

We consider a closed three-dimensional contact sub-Riemannian manifold. The objective of this note is to provide a precise description of the sub-Riemannian geodesics with large initial momenta: we prove that they "spiral around the Reeb…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-26 Yves Colin de Verdière , Luc Hillairet , Emmanuel Trélat

Inspired by Katok's examples of Finsler metrics with a small number of closed geodesics, we present two results on Reeb flows with finitely many periodic orbits. The first result is concerned with a contact-geometric description of magnetic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-05-22 Peter Albers , Hansjörg Geiges , Kai Zehmisch

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