Cylindrical contact homology and topological entropy

DOI10.2140/GT.2016.20.3519MaRDI QIDQ511600zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marcelo R. R. Alves

Publication date 22 February 2017

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.3380

zbMATH Keywords

contact homologyReeb flowssymplectic field theorytopological entropy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological entropy (37B40) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic field theory; contact homology (53D42)

Abstract: We establish a relation between the growth of the cylindrical contact homology of a contact manifold and the topological entropy of Reeb flows on this manifold. We show that if a contact manifold $(M,xi)$ admits a hypertight contact form $lambd{a}_0$ for which the cylindrical contact homology has exponential homotopical growth rate, then the Reeb flow of every contact form on $(M,xi)$ has positive topological entropy. Using this result, we provide numerous new examples of contact 3-manifolds on which every Reeb flow has positive topological entropy.

Review text

A relation between the behaviour of cylindrical contact homology and the topological entropy of Reeb flows is established here. The topological entropy is a nonnegative number associated to a dynamical system which measures the complexity of the orbit structure of the system. Positivity of the topological entropy means that the system possesses some type of exponential instability. The main result states that if a contact manifold \((M,\xi)\) admits a hypertight contact form for which the cylindrical contact homology has exponential homotopical growth rate, then the Reeb flow of every contact form on \(M\) has positive topological entropy. This result yields new examples of contact 3-manifolds on which every Reeb flow has positive topological entropy. For example, the author shows the existence of 3-manifolds that admit infinitely many different contact structures on which every Reeb flow has positive topological entropy.

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