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For every nontrivial free homotopy class $\alpha$ of loops in every closed connected Riemannian manifold $M$, we prove existence of a noncontractible 1-periodic orbit, for every compactly supported time-dependent Hamiltonian on the open…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-10 Joa Weber

Let M denote a compact, oriented 3-manifold and let a denote a contact 1-form on M. This article proves that the vector field that generates the kernel of the 2-form da has at least one closed, integral curve.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Clifford Henry Taubes

We show that the presence of a non-contractible one-periodic orbit of a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism of a connected closed symplectic manifold $(M,\omega)$ implies the existence of infinitely many non-contractible simple periodic orbits,…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Ryuma Orita

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

In this note we prove the Weinstein conjecture for a class of symplectic manifolds including the uniruled manifolds based on Liu-Tian's result.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Guangcun Lu

We prove that a Weinstein domain symplectically embedded in a closed symplectic manifold always admits symplectic hypersurfaces in its complement, possibly after a deformation. As a consequence, we obtain an obstruction for a closed…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Thomas E. Mark , Bülent Tosun

We use the minimal coupling procedure of Sternberg and Weinstein and our pseudo-symplectic capacity theory to prove that every closed symplectic submanifold in any symplectic manifold has an open neighborhood with finite ($\pi_1$-sensitive)…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Guangcun Lu

We obtain several results for (iterated) planar contact manifolds in higher dimensions: (1) Iterated planar contact manifolds are not weakly symplectically semi-fillable. This generalizes a 3-dimensional result of Etnyre to a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Bahar Acu , Agustin Moreno

In this article, we study the Hamiltonian dynamics on singular symplectic manifolds and prove the Arnold conjecture for a large class of $b^m$-symplectic manifolds. Novel techniques are introduced to associate smooth symplectic forms to the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Joaquim Brugués , Eva Miranda , Cédric Oms

Hofer proved the Weinstein conjecture for a closed contact 3-manifold with an overtwisted disk. In this article we extend it to the virtual contact structure and provide a new explicit example of the virtual contact structure with an…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-18 Youngjin Bae

In this article we prove that the Weinstein conjecture holds for contact manifolds $(\Sigma,\xi)$ for which $\mathrm{Cont}_0(\Sigma,\xi)$ is non-orderable in the sense of Eliashberg-Polterovich [EP00]. More precisely, we establish a link…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-23 Peter Albers , Urs Fuchs , Will J. Merry

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

Motivated by recent developments in proving the Weinstein conjecture we introduce the notion of covering contact connected sum for virtually contact manifolds and construct virtually contact structures on boundaries of subcritical handle…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Kevin Wiegand , Kai Zehmisch

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

We observe that nonzero Gromov-Witten invariants with marked point constraints in a closed symplectic manifold imply restrictions on the homology classes that can be represented by contact hypersurfaces. As a special case, contact…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Chris Wendl

We show that whenever a closed symplectic manifold admits a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism with finitely many simple periodic orbits, the manifold has a spherical homology class of degree two with positive symplectic area and positive integral…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Viktor L. Ginzburg , Basak Z. Gurel

Motivated by Poincar\'e's orbits going to infinity in the (restricted) three-body (see [26] and [6]), we investigate the generic existence of heteroclinic-like orbits in a neighbourhood of the critical set of a $b$-contact form. This is…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Eva Miranda , Cédric Oms , Daniel Peralta-Salas

Extending work of Chen, we prove the Weinstein conjecture in dimension three for strongly fillable contact structures with either non-vanishing first Chern class or with strong and exact filling having non-trivial canonical bundle. This…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kai Zehmisch

We show that the existence of one simple closed Reeb orbit of a particular type (a symplectically degenerate maximum) forces the Reeb flow to have infinitely many periodic orbits. We use this result to give a different proof of a recent…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-19 Viktor L. Ginzburg , Doris Hein , Umberto L. Hryniewicz , Leonardo Macarini

We show that a small neighborhood of a closed symplectic submanifold in a geometrically bounded aspherical symplectic manifold has non-vanishing symplectic homology. As a consequence, we establish the existence of contractible closed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kai Cieliebak , Viktor L. Ginzburg , Ely Kerman