A remark on the Reeb flow for spheres

DOI10.4310/JSG.2014.V12.N4.A1MaRDI QIDQ2347209zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Roger Casals, Francisco Presas

Publication date 27 May 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.5785

zbMATH Keywords

contact fibrationshomotopy sequencelinear contact spheresspace of contact structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Homotopy and topological questions for infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B05)

Abstract: We prove the non--triviality of the Reeb flow for the (2n+1)--dimensional standard contact spheres inside the fundamental group of their contactomorphism group, n greater than 3. The argument uses the existence of homotopically non--trivial 2--spheres in the space of contact structures of a 3--Sasakian manifold.

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