Dynamically convex Finsler metrics and \(J\)-holomorphic embedding of asymptotic cylinders (Q944920)

A contact form on a closed, connected, oriented 3-manifold is said to be dynamically convex if the Conley-Zehnder index of any periodic of its Reeb vector field is at least three. This notion generalizes the case of convex hypersurfaces in \({\mathbb R}^4\) on which the contact form is simply the restriction of the standard one-form from the ambient space. There are two main theorems, denoted A and B. The first theorem provides holomorphic data which determine a finite-energy \(J\)-holomorphic curve of charge \(n\). The second theorem states that a Finsler metric \(F\) on \(S^2\) with curvature \(K\geq \delta >0\) such that the length \(l\) of its shortest geodesic loop satisfies \(l>\frac{\pi }{\sqrt{\delta }}\) is dynamically convex, i.e., the contact form associated to \(F\) is so. An important consequence of this last result is that any such Finsler metric has either two or infinitely many closed geodesics. The class of Finsler metrics covered by theorem B is fairly large and is connected with \textit{A. B. Katok}'s examples [Math. USSR Izv. 7(1973), 535--571 (1974); translation from Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Ser. Mat. 37, 539--576 (1973; Zbl 0316.58010)].