Orderability and the Weinstein conjecture

DOI10.1112/S0010437X15007642MaRDI QIDQ2786461zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Peter Albers, Urs Fuchs, Will J. Merry

Publication date 12 February 2016

Published in Compositio Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.0786

zbMATH Keywords

contact structuresFloer cohomologyhypertight contact structuresorderabilityWeinstein conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contact systems (37J55) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Symplectic aspects of Floer homology and cohomology (53D40) Symplectic field theory; contact homology (53D42)

Abstract: In this article we prove that the Weinstein conjecture holds for contact manifolds $(Sigma,xi)$ for which $mathrm{Cont}_0(Sigma,xi)$ is non-orderable in the sense of Eliashberg-Polterovich [EP00]. More precisely, we establish a link between orderable and hypertight contact manifolds. In addition, we prove for certain contact manifolds a conjecture by Sandon [San13b] on the existence of translated points in the non-degenerate case.

Review text

One of the famous conjectures in contact geometry is the so-called Weinstein conjecture [\textit{A. Weinstein}, J. Differ. Equations 33, 353--358 (1979; Zbl 0388.58020)] which asserts for a closed coorientable contact manifold \((\Sigma, \xi)\) that any supporting contact form admits a periodic Reeb orbit. \textit{Y. Eliashberg} and \textit{L. Polterovich} [Geom. Funct. Anal. 10, No. 6, 1448--1476 (2000; Zbl 0986.53036)] introduced the notion of orderability of contact manifolds. Denote by \(\text{Cont}_0 (\Sigma, \xi)\) the group of contactomorphims of \((\Sigma, \xi)\) which are contact isotopic to the identity, and by \(\widetilde{\text{Cont}}_0 (\Sigma, \xi)\) its universal cover. Then, the authors prove that the Weinstein conjecture holds for any contact manifold \((\Sigma, \xi)\) for which \(\text{Cont}_0 (\Sigma, \xi)\) is non-orderable; if, in addition, \(\widetilde{\text{Cont}}_0 (\Sigma, \xi)\) is non-orderable, then every supporting contact form admits a contractible closed Reeb orbit.NEWLINENEWLINEThe authors also establish a link between orderable and hypertight contact manifolds, and prove a conjecture by \textit{S. Sandon} [Geom. Dedicata 165, 95--110 (2013; Zbl 1287.53067)] for certain contact manifolds.

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