Reeb dynamics detects odd balls

DOI10.2422/2036-2145.201404_006MaRDI QIDQ2807115zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hansjörg Geiges, Kai Zehmisch

Publication date 19 May 2016

Published in Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di Scienze. Serie V (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.3598

zbMATH Keywords

odd-dimensional ballshort periodic Reeb orbits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Periodic orbits of vector fields and flows (37C27) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Contact systems (37J55) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Abstract: We give a dynamical characterisation of odd-dimensional balls within the class of all contact manifolds whose boundary is a standard even-dimensional sphere. The characterisation is in terms of the non-existence of short periodic Reeb orbits.

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