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It is well known that a contact manifold admits a unique vector field \\(X\\), called the Reeb vector field, such that \\(i_Xd\\lambda=0\\) and \\(i_X\\lambda=1\\).  In [J. Differ. Equations 33, 353--358 (1979; Zbl 0388.58020)], \\textit{A. Weinstein} conjectured that the Reeb vector field on a compact simply-connected contact manifold has a closed orbit. Many authors, including this reviewer, believe that the conjecture is true without the assumption of simple connectivity. In dimension 3 the conjecture was recently proved in full generality by \\textit{C. H. Taubes} [Geom. Topol. 11, 2117--2202 (2007; Zbl 1135.57015)]. The present paper considers the Weinstein conjecture in higher dimensions.  In dimension 3 one has the notion of an overtwisted contact structure. Let \\(\\xi\\) denote the contact structure or hyperplane field defined by \\(\\lambda=0\\). Roughly speaking, \\(\\xi\\) being overtwisted means that one has a contact embedding of a disk, tangent to \\(\\xi\\) at the origin and such that as one moves outward radially, the plane \\(\\xi\\) turns over in a finite distance.  As a higher dimensional generalization of being overtwisted, \\textit{K. Niederkr\u00fcger} [Algebr. Geom. Topol. 6, 2473--2508 (2006; Zbl 1129.53056)] introduced the notion of a Plastikstufe. Let \\({\\mathbb D}^2\\) denote the closed unit disk with coordinates \\((x,y)\\). The contact manifold contains a \\textit{Plastikstufe with singular set \\(S\\)} if it admits a closed submanifold \\(S\\) of dimension \\(n-2\\) and an embedding \\(\\iota:{\\mathbb D}^2\\times S\\longrightarrow M\\) with \\(\\iota(\\{0\\}\\times S)=S\\) having the following properties: (1) There exists a contact form \\(\\lambda_{\\text{PS}}\\) inducing \\(\\xi\\) such that the 1-form \\(\\beta=\\iota^*\\lambda_{\\text{PS}}\\) satisfies \\(\\beta\\wedge d\\beta=0\\) and \\(\\beta\\neq 0\\) on \\(({\\mathbb D}^2\\backslash \\{0\\})\\times S\\). Near \\(\\{0\\}\\times S\\), \\(\\beta=xdy-ydx\\) and the pull-back of \\(\\beta\\) to \\(\\partial{\\mathbb D}^2\\times S\\) vanishes. (2) The complement of \\(\\{0\\}\\times S\\) in \\(({\\mathbb D}^2\\backslash\\partial{\\mathbb D}^2)\\times S\\) is smoothly foliated by \\(\\beta\\) via an \\(S^1\\)-family of leaves diffeomorphic to \\((0,1)\\times S\\), where one of the ends converges to the singular set \\(\\{0\\}\\times S\\) and the other is asymptotic to the leaf \\(\\partial{\\mathbb D}^2\\times S\\). The set \\(\\iota({\\mathbb D}^2\\times S)\\) is called the \\textit{Plastikstufe} and a closed contact manifold is said to be \\textit{PS-overtwisted} is it admits a contact form \\(\\lambda_{\\text{PS}}\\) inducing \\(\\xi\\) containing a Plastikstufe.  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