Closed orbits of Reeb fields on Sasakian manifolds and elliptic curves on Vaisman manifolds (Q2664681)

In this paper the authors study the Reeb dynamics on Sasakian manifolds. These manifolds are contact manifolds equipped with a Riemannian metric, in such a way that their symplectic cone is equipped with a Kähler structure which is automorphic with respect to the dilations along the generators of the cone. The first main result is a new proof of a result which confirms the Weinstein conjecture for compact Sasakian manifolds: for a compact Sasakian manifold of dimension \(2n + 1\), its Reeb field has at least \(n + 1\) closed orbits. The proof given here does not explicitly use the contact or Sasakian geometry, but transfers the problem to the framework of complex geometry. From this argument they could also obtain an explicit expression for the number of Reeb orbits on a Sasakian manifold associated with a projective orbifold \(X\) admitting holomorphic vector fields with isolated zeros. In that case the number of Reeb orbits (for an appropriate Sasakian structure) is equal to the number of fixed points of any of these vector fields. The compact Sasakian manifolds are known to be closely related to Vaisman manifolds. The second main result of the work reads: Let \(V\) be a compact Vaisman manifold which contains precisely \(r\) elliptic curves. Then \(r \geq \dim_{\mathbb C} V\).