Using simplicial volume to count multi-tangent trajectories of traversing vector fields

Abstract: For a non-vanishing gradient-like vector field on a compact manifold

X^{n + 1}

with boundary, a discrete set of trajectories may be tangent to the boundary with reduced multiplicity

n

, which is the maximum possible. (Among them are trajectories that are tangent to

p a r t i a l X

exactly

n

times.) We prove a lower bound on the number of such trajectories in terms of the simplicial volume of

X

by adapting methods of Gromov, in particular his "amenable reduction lemma". We apply these bounds to vector fields on hyperbolic manifolds.

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