Deformation of immersed Legendrian curves along a pseudo-gradient for the action functional: the \(H^1_0\)-flow at infinity (Q2889986)

Let \((M^3,\alpha)\) be three-dimensional compact orientable manifold without boundary and let \(\alpha\) be a contact form on \(M^3\). Let \(v\) be a nonzero vector field in \(\text{Ker\,}\alpha\) and let \(\xi\) be the Reeb vector field of \(\alpha\). If \(\beta= d\alpha(v,\cdot)\) is a contact form with the same orientation as \(\alpha\) and \(\beta\wedge d\beta=\alpha\wedge d\alpha\), the following result is valid.NEWLINENEWLINE Theorem: There is a globally defined pseudo-gradient \(X\) for \(J\) on the space \(C_\beta\) that does not increase the number of zeros of the \(v\)-component of the tangent vector \(\widetilde x= a\xi+ bv\) to a curve and that deforms the space \(C_\beta\) at infinity on \(A\cup B\), where \(A\) is the union of the unstable manifolds \(\bigcup W_u(x_\infty)\) of the various cycles at infinity \(x_\infty\) and \(B\) is the union of the unstable manifolds of the various periodic orbits of \(\xi\).