Trapped Reeb orbits do not imply periodic ones

DOI10.1007/S00222-014-0500-9MaRDI QIDQ464829zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Hansjörg Geiges, Nena Röttgen, Kai Zehmisch

Publication date 30 October 2014

Published in Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

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

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)

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.

Review text

A theorem by \textit{Y. Eliashberg} and \textit{H. Hofer} [Differ. Integral Equ. 7, No. 5--6, 1303--1324 (1994; Zbl 0803.58045)] states that any contact form \(\alpha\) on \(\mathbb R^3\) which equals the standard form outside a compact set and whose Reeb vector field does not have any periodic orbits, is diffeomorphic to the standard one. In terms of the Reeb vector field, this is equivalent to say that if the Reeb vector field of \(\alpha\) has a trapped orbit, then it also has a periodic orbit. H. Hofer conjectured the higher-dimensional analogue of this result, but in this paper the authors disprove that conjecture by an example.

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