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We show that for dynamically convex contact forms in three dimensions, the cylindrical contact homology differential d can be defined by directly counting holomorphic cylinders for a generic almost complex structure, without any abstract…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-14 Michael Hutchings , Jo Nelson

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

Using deformations of foliations to contact structures as well as rigidity properties of Anosov foliations we provide infinite families of examples which show that the space of taut foliations in a given homotopy class of plane fields is in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Jonathan Bowden

Extending Blaschke and Lebesgue's classical result in the Euclidean plane, it has been recently proved in spherical and the hyperbolic cases, as well, that Reuleaux triangles have the minimal area among convex domains of constant width $D$.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-01 Karoly J. Boroczky , Adam Sagmeister

Parallel to the study of toric domains, symplectically convex, and dynamically convex domains in $(\mathbb R^4, \omega_{\rm std})$, we build an analogous framework and corresponding subclasses for Liouville domains in $(T^*\mathbb…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Jun Zhang , Antong Zhu

We prove a contact non-squeezing phenomenon on homotopy spheres that are fillable by Liouville domains with infinite dimensional symplectic homology: there exists a smoothly embedded ball in such a sphere that cannot be made arbitrarily…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Igor Uljarevic

We show that there exist infinite-dimensional quasi-flats in the compactly supported Hamiltonian diffeomorphism group of the Liouville domain, with respect to the spectral norm, if and only if the symplectic cohomology of this Liouville…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Qi Feng , Jun Zhang

We classify convex disks with a fixed characteristic foliation and Legendrian boundary, up to contact isotopy relative to the boundary, in every closed overtwisted contact 3-manifold. This classification covers cases where the neighborhood…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Dahyana Farias , Eduardo Fernández , Francisco Presas , Guillermo Sánchez-Arellano

We define a family of symplectic invariants which obstruct exact symplectic embeddings between Liouville manifolds, using the general formalism of linearized contact homology and its L-infinity structure. As our primary application, we…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Sheel Ganatra , Kyler Siegel

We generalize a result of Giroux which says that a closed surface in a contact $3$-manifold with Morse-Smale characteristic foliation is convex. Specifically, we show that the result holds in contact manifolds of arbitrary dimension. As an…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-02 Joseph Breen

Let S be a compact surface - or the interior of a compact surface - and let V be the manifold of cooriented contact elements of S equiped with its canonical contact structure. A diffeomorphism of V that preserves the contact structure and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Emmanuel Giroux

We investigate the local geometry of a pair of independent contact structures on 3-manifolds under maps that independently preserve each contact structure. We discover that such maps are homotheties on the contact 1-forms and we discover…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Taylor J. Klotz , George R. Wilkens

We apply the method of filling with holomorphic discs to a 4-dimensional symplectic cobordism with the standard contact 3-sphere as a convex boundary component. We establish the following dichotomy: either the cobordism is diffeomorphic to…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-11 Hansjörg Geiges , Kai Zehmisch

Precontact manifolds extend contact geometry by weakening the maximal non-integrability condition of the defining $1$-form. We clarify the geometric foundations of this structure by studying general pairs of a $1$-form and a $2$-form under…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Xavier Gràcia , Àngel Martínez-Muñoz , Xavier Rivas

Often it is possible to equip the space of all cone geodesics of a strongly convex cone structure with the structure of a smooth contact manifold. This generalizes the analogous notions for the space of light rays of a Lorentzian spacetime.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Jakob Hedicke

This paper associates a persistence module to a contact vector field $X$ on the ideal boundary of a Liouville manifold. The persistence module measures the dynamics of $X$ on the region $\Omega$ where $X$ is positively transverse to the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-10 Dylan Cant , Igor Uljarević

We prove that contact homeomorphisms preserve characteristic foliations on surfaces in contact $3$-manifolds. More precisely, since the characteristic foliation is a singular $1$-dimensional foliation, we show that singular points are…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Baptiste Serraille , Maksim Stokić

The higher order contact of a quadric with a surface in $3$-space at a non-degenerate point is obtained by the Moutard quadric in the Darboux direction. In this paper, we discuss the extension of this result to hypersurfaces in arbitrary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-08 Fernanda Py Silva Cordeiro , Marcos Craizer

This paper deals with proper holomorphic self-maps of smoothly bounded pseudoconvex domains in $\C^2$. We study the dynamical properties of their extension to the boundary and show that their non-wandering sets are always contained in the…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Emmanuel Opshtein

This paper is the sequel to the previous paper [Ne15], which showed that sufficient regularity exists to define cylindrical contact homology in dimension three for nondegenerate dynamically separated contact forms, a subclass of dynamically…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-13 Jo Nelson