The Weinstein conjecture in the presence of submanifolds having a Legendrian foliation

DOI10.1142/S1793525311000684zbMATH Open1241.53064arXiv1104.0250WikidataQ122910845 ScholiaQ122910845MaRDI QIDQ3225682FDOQ3225682

Authors: Klaus Niederkrüger, Ana Rechtman 

Publication date: 22 March 2012

Published in: Journal of Topology and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Helmut Hofer introduced in '93 a novel technique based on holomorphic curves to prove the Weinstein conjecture. Among the cases where these methods apply are all contact 3--manifolds $(M,xi)$ with $p{i}_2(M)e0$. We modify Hofer's argument to prove the Weinstein conjecture for some examples of higher dimensional contact manifolds. In particular, we are able to show that the connected sum with a real projective space always has a closed contractible Reeb orbit.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.0250

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zbMATH Keywords

periodic orbitReeb vector fieldWeinstein conjectureLegendrian open book

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Noncompact Lie groups of transformations (57S20) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10)

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