Lusternik-Schnirelmann theory and closed Reeb orbits

DOI10.1007/S00209-019-02361-2zbMATH Open1440.53100arXiv1601.03092OpenAlexW2965262309MaRDI QIDQ2182425FDOQ2182425

Başak Z. Gürel, Viktor L. Ginzburg

Publication date: 23 May 2020

Published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We develop a variant of Lusternik-Schnirelmann theory for the shift operator in equivariant Floer and symplectic homology. Our key result is that the spectral invariants are strictly decreasing under the action of the shift operator when periodic orbits are isolated. As an application, we prove new multiplicity results for simple closed Reeb orbits on the standard contact sphere, the unit cotangent bundle to the sphere and some other contact manifolds. We also show that the lower Conley--Zehnder index enjoys a certain recurrence property and revisit and reprove from a different perspective a variant of the common jump theorem of Long and Zhu. This is the second, combinatorial ingredient in the proof of the multiplicity results.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.03092

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zbMATH Keywords

periodic orbitsConley-Zehnder indexReeb flowsLusternik-Schnirelmann theoryFloer and symplectic homology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic aspects of Floer homology and cohomology (53D40) Contact systems (37J55) Symplectic and canonical mappings (37J11)

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