ON ITERATED TRANSLATED POINTS FOR CONTACTOMORPHISMS OF ℝ2n+1 AND ℝ2n × S1

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Abstract: A point q in a contact manifold is called a translated point for a contactomorphism phi, with respect to some fixed contact form, if phi (q) and q belong to the same Reeb orbit and the contact form is preserved at q. The problem of existence of translated points is related to the chord conjecture and to the problem of leafwise coisotropic intersections. In the case of a compactly supported contactomorphism of R^{2n+1} or R^{2n} x S^1 contact isotopic to the identity, existence of translated points follows immediately from Chekanov's theorem on critical points of quasi-functions and Bhupal's graph construction. In this article we prove that if phi is positive then there are infinitely many non-trivial geometrically distinct iterated translated points, i.e. translated points of some iteration phi^k. This result can be seen as a (partial) contact analogue of the result of Viterbo on existence of infinitely many iterated fixed points for compactly supported Hamiltonian symplectomorphisms of R^{2n}, and is obtained with generating functions techniques in the setting of arXiv:0901.3112.




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