Foliated vector fields without periodic orbits

DOI10.1007/S11856-016-1336-3MaRDI QIDQ312281zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel Peralta-Salas, Álvaro del Pino, Francisco Presas

Publication date 15 September 2016

Published in Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.0123

zbMATH Keywords

foliated vector fieldparametric Kuperberg's plugparametric Wilson's plugperiodic orbit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Periodic orbits of vector fields and flows (37C27) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30)

Abstract: In this article parametric versions of Wilson's plug and Kuperberg's plug are discussed. We show that there is a weak homotopy equivalence induced by the inclusion between the space of non-singular vector fields tangent to a foliation and the subspace of those without closed orbits, as long as the leaves of the foliation have dimension at least 3. We contrast this with the case of foliations by surfaces in 3-manifolds.

Review text

Let \(M\) be a closed connected smooth \((n+m)\)-dimensional manifold endowed with a smooth foliation \(\mathcal F\) of dimension \(n\geq3\). Let \(\mathfrak X_{\text{ns}}(M,\mathcal F)\) be the space of nonsingular vector fields tangent to the leaves, and let \(\mathfrak X_{\text{no}}(M,\mathcal F)\) be its subspace of vector fields without closed orbits. The main theorem of the paper states that the inclusion map \(\mathfrak X_{\text{no}}(M,\mathcal F)\hookrightarrow\mathfrak X_{\text{ns}}(M,\mathcal F)\) is a weak homotopy equivalence. Even in the case \(m=0\) (a single leaf), this theorem slightly improves the known results, which state that this inclusion induces a bijection between the corresponding sets of connected components. The proof uses parametric versions of the famous plugs constructed by Wilson and Kuperberg. Now, let \(\mathcal F\) be a foliation of dimension \(2\) on a compact connected \(3\)-dimensional manifold \(M\), so that \(\partial M\) is a union of leaves. It is said that \((M,\mathcal F)\) is a generalized Reeb component if moreover no pair of points on \(\partial M\) can be joined by a curve transverse to \(\mathcal F\), and all the leaves in the interior of \(M\) are proper and without holonomy. In this case, the authors show that, if \(M\) is not homeomorphic to \(\mathbb T^2\times[0,1]\), then any non-singular vector field tangent to the leaves has at least two closed orbits.

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