Contact forms with large systolic ratio in dimension three
Symplectic Geometry
2021-03-05 v1 Differential Geometry
Dynamical Systems
Abstract
The systolic ratio of a contact form on a closed three-manifold is the quotient of the square of the shortest period of closed Reeb orbits by the contact volume. We show that every co-orientable contact structure on any closed three-manifold is defined by a contact form with arbitrarily large systolic ratio. This shows that the many existing systolic inequalities in Finsler and Riemannian geometry are not purely contact-topological phenomena.
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@article{arxiv.1709.01621,
title = {Contact forms with large systolic ratio in dimension three},
author = {Alberto Abbondandolo and Barney Bramham and Umberto L. Hryniewicz and Pedro A. S. Salomão},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.01621},
year = {2021}
}
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17 pages, 2 figures