Perfect Reeb flows and action-index relations

DOI10.1007/S10711-014-0006-ZzbMATH Open1314.53140OpenAlexW1997555425MaRDI QIDQ2256252FDOQ2256252

Authors: Başak Z. Gürel 

Publication date: 19 February 2015

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study non-degenerate Reeb flows arising from perfect contact forms, i.e., the forms with vanishing contact homology differential. In particular, we obtain upper bounds on the number of simple closed Reeb orbits for such forms on a variety of contact manifolds and certain action-index resonance relations for the standard contact sphere. Using these results, we reprove a theorem due to Bourgeois, Cieliebak and Ekholm characterizing perfect Reeb flows on the standard contact three-sphere as non-degenerate Reeb flows with exactly two simple closed orbits.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.2665

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zbMATH Keywords

periodic orbitscontact homologyReeb flowscontact forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) Symplectic field theory; contact homology (53D42) Periodic and almost periodic solutions for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H12)

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