Unknotted Reeb orbits and nicely embedded holomorphic curves

DOI10.4310/JSG.2020.V18.N1.A2MaRDI QIDQ2306964zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Alexandru Cioba, Chris Wendl

Publication date 27 March 2020

Published in The Journal of Symplectic Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.01660

zbMATH Keywords

exact symplectic cobordismholomorphic annuliLiouville cobordismslocal adjunction formulapunctured holomorphic curvesReeb orbit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Cobordism and concordance in topological manifolds (57N70)

Abstract: We exhibit a distinctly low-dimensional dynamical obstruction to the existence of Liouville cobordisms: for any contact 3-manifold admitting an exact symplectic cobordism to the tight 3-sphere, every nondegenerate contact form admits an embedded Reeb orbit that is unknotted and has self-linking number -1. The same is true moreover for any contact structure on a closed 3-manifold that is reducible. Our results generalize an earlier theorem of Hofer-Wysocki-Zehnder for the 3-sphere, but use somewhat newer techniques: the main idea is to exploit the intersection theory of punctured holomorphic curves in order to understand the compactification of the space of so-called "nicely embedded" curves in symplectic cobordisms. In the process, we prove a local adjunction formula for holomorphic annuli breaking along a Reeb orbit, which may be of independent interest.

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