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We survey recent progress on the Greenfield-Wallach and Katok conjectures on globally hypoelliptic and cohomology free vector fields and derive a proof of the conjectures in dimension three. The argument is primarily based on recent work of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-06-28 Giovanni Forni

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 introduce a procedure for gluing Weinstein domains along Weinstein subdomains. By gluing along flexible subdomains, we show that any finite collection of high-dimensional Weinstein domains with the same topology are Weinstein subdomains…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-13 Oleg Lazarev

We prove the following three results in Hamiltonian dynamics. 1. The Weinstein conjecture holds true for every displaceable hypersurface of contact type. 2. Every magnetic flow on a closed Riemannian manifold has contractible closed orbits…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Urs Frauenfelder , Felix Schlenk

We introduce a direct generalization of the Weinstein conjecture to closed, Lichnerowicz exact, locally conformally symplectic manifolds, (for short $\lcs$ manifolds). This conjectures existence of certain 2-curves in the manifold, which we…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Yasha Savelyev

Iterated planar contact manifolds are a generalization of three dimensional planar contact manifolds to higher dimensions. We study some basic topological properties of iterated planar contact manifolds and discuss several examples and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Bahar Acu , John B. Etnyre , Burak Ozbagci

In this paper, using pseudo-holomorphic curve method, one proves the Weinstein conjecture in the product $P_1\times P_2$ of two strongly geometrically bounded symplectic manifolds under some conditions with $P_1$. In particular, if $N$ is a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-28 Yanqiao Ding , Jianxun Hu

We prove the strong Weinstein conjecture for closed contact manifolds that appear as the concave boundary of a symplectic cobordism admitting an essential local foliation by holomorphic spheres.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-21 Stefan Suhr , Kai Zehmisch

We construct bypass attachments in higher dimensional contact manifolds that, when attached to a neighborhood of a Weinstein hypersurface, yield a neighborhood of a new Weinstein hypersurface, obtained via local modifications to the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Joseph Breen , Austin Christian

We prove that all flexible Weinstein fillings of a given contact manifold with vanishing first Chern class have isomorphic integral cohomology; in certain cases, we prove that all flexible fillings are symplectomorphic. As an application,…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-08 Oleg Lazarev

We consider local geometry of sub-pseudo-Riemannian structures on contact manifolds. We construct fundamental invariants of the structures and show that the structures give rise to Einstein-Weyl geometries in dimension 3, provided that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-25 Marek Grochowski , Wojciech Krynski

We study holomorphic spheres in certain symplectic cobordisms and derive information about periodic Reeb orbits in the concave end of these cobordisms from the non-compactness of the relevant moduli spaces. We use this to confirm the strong…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Hansjörg Geiges , Kai Zehmisch

We describe a procedure, called regularisation, that allows us to study geometric structures on Lie algebroids via foliated geometric structures on a manifold of higher dimension. This procedure applies to various classes of Lie algebroids;…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Álvaro del Pino , Aldo Witte

We propose a theory of contact invariants and open string invariants, assuming that the almost complex $J$ is either non-degenerate or of Bott-type. We do not choose the complex structure $\tilde{J}$ such that $L_X\tilde{J}=0$ on periodic…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-30 An-Min Li , Li Sheng

We establish a parametric extension $h$-principle for overtwisted contact structures on manifolds of all dimensions, which is the direct generalization of the $3$-dimensional result from \cite{Eli89}. It implies, in particular, that any…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-14 Matthew Strom Borman , Yakov Eliashberg , Emmy Murphy

Minimal surfaces and domain walls play important roles in various contexts of spacetime physics as well as material science. In this paper, we first review the Bernstein conjecture, which asserts that a plane is the only globally well…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-28 Gary W. Gibbons , Kei-ichi Maeda , Umpei Miyamoto

The aim of the work is to prove the following main theorem. Theorem. Let M3 be a three-dimensional, connected, simple-connected, closed, compact, smooth manifold. Tnen the manifold M3 is diffeomorphic to the three-dimensional sphere.

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2008-07-09 Alexander A. Ermolitski

Generalized $(\kappa ,\mu )$ structures occur in dimension 3 only. In this dimension 3, only K-contact structures can occur as generalized Eta-Einstein. On closed manifolds, Eta-Einstein, K-contact structures which are not D-homothetic to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Philippe Rukimbira

We draw connections between the field of contact topology and the study of Beltrami fields in hydrodynamics on Riemannian manifolds in dimension three. We demonstrate an equivalence between Reeb fields (vector fields which preserve a…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 J. Etnyre , R. Ghrist

We prove that any weakly symplectically fillable contact manifold is tight. Furthermore we verify the strong Weinstein conjecture for contact manifolds that appear as the concave boundary of a directed symplectic cobordism whose positive…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Wolfgang Schmaltz , Stefan Suhr , Kai Zehmisch