Diffeomorphism type via aperiodicity in Reeb dynamics (Q6601752)

The authors prove uniqueness of homotopy and diffeomorphism type of certain contact manifolds assuming there are no short periodic Reeb orbits. The contact manifolds of interest here are isotropic submanifolds with boundary-shaped disc-like neighborhoods. The goal in the end is to extend the results of \textit{H.Geiges}, and \textit{K. Zehmisch} [Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa Cl. Sci. (5) 15, 663--681 (2016, Zbl 1356.53080)] and \textit{K. Barth} et al. [Münster J. Math. 12, 31--48 (2019 Zbl 1422.53067)].\N\NThe result in the first reference is that any compact strict contact manifold that has an aperiodic Reeb flow is diffeomorphic to the ball \(D^{2n+1}\) provided that a neighborhood of the boundary has a strict contact embedding into the standard \(D^{2n+1}\) mapping the boundary to the sphere \(S^{2n}\). The second reference generalizes this by replacing \(D^{2n+1}\) by the the disc bundle of \(\mathbb{R} \times T^* T^d \times \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{C}^{n-1-d}\) if \(n-1 \geq d\).\N\NThe aim in this paper is to replace the torus \(T^d\) in the second reference with a wider class of d-dimensional manifolds \(Q\) whose embedding in a strict contact manifold \(M\) meets a technical condition the authors identify as ``standard near the boundary''.\N\NFor the entire collection see [Zbl 1515.53004].