Multiplicity of periodic orbits for dynamically convex contact forms (Q523329)

The purpose of this work is to address the multiplicity problem of closed orbits on prequantization when the basis is \textit{not aspherical} and therefore the so-called \textit{contact Conley conjecture} (CCC) can fail. In order to attack this problem there are considered \textit{dynamically convex} contact forms which generalize the classical notion of convexity for spheres in \(\mathbb{R}^{2n}\) to general contact manifolds in a homological fashion. The main result, namely Theorem 2.2, establishes a sharp lower bound for the number of geometrically distinct contractible periodic orbits of dynamically convex contact forms on suitable prequantizations. Several consequences of this result and its proof are obtained, like a new proof that every bumpy Finsler metric on \(S^n\) carries at least two prime closed geodesics.