Linking numbers in contact form geometry, with an application to the computation of the intersection operator for the first contact form of J. Gonzalo and F. Varela (Q2254877)
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Linking numbers in contact form geometry, with an application to the computation of the intersection operator for the first contact form of J. Gonzalo and F. Varela (English)
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6 February 2015
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The main result of this paper states that the linking number between two periodic orbits does not decrease along the decreasing flow lines of a suitable pseudo-gradient for the action functional of the variational problem \((J, C_{\beta })\) as well as its extension \((J_{\infty }, \cup \Gamma _{2k})\). This fact is used to express the value of the intersection operator for periodic orbits in the case of the first exotic contact form of \textit{J. Gonzalo} and \textit{F. Varela} [Astérisque 107--108, 163--168 (1983; Zbl 0526.53042)].
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linking number
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contact form geometry
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the intersection operator
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exotic contact form
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