Trapped Reeb orbits do not imply periodic ones

DOI10.1007/S00222-014-0500-9zbMATH Open1304.37019arXiv1309.4982OpenAlexW2079445093WikidataQ60228720 ScholiaQ60228720MaRDI QIDQ464829FDOQ464829

Authors: Hansjörg Geiges, Nena Röttgen, Kai Zehmisch 

Publication date: 30 October 2014

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct a contact form on R^{2n+1}, n at least 2, equal to the standard contact form outside a compact set and defining the standard contact structure on all of R^{2n+1}, which has trapped Reeb orbits, including a torus invariant under the Reeb flow, but no closed Reeb orbits. This answers a question posed by Helmut Hofer.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.4982

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zbMATH Keywords

contact manifoldsReeb vector field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Periodic orbits of vector fields and flows (37C27) Attractors and repellers of smooth dynamical systems and their topological structure (37C70) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10)

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