Slow volume growth for Reeb flows on spherizations and contact Bott-Samelson theorems

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DOI10.1142/S1793525315500168zbMATH Open1368.53056arXiv1307.7290OpenAlexW2962919681MaRDI QIDQ5262370FDOQ5262370

Urs Frauenfelder, Felix Schlenk, Clémence Labrousse

Publication date: 13 July 2015

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

Abstract: We give a uniform lower bound for the polynomial complexity of all Reeb flows on the spherization (S*M,xi) over a closed manifold. Our measure for the dynamical complexity of Reeb flows is slow volume growth, a polynomial version of topological entropy, and our uniform bound is in terms of the polynomial growth of the homology of the based loops space of M. As an application, we extend the Bott--Samelson theorem from geodesic flows to Reeb flows: If (S*M,xi) admits a periodic Reeb flow, or, more generally, if there exists a positive Legendrian loop of a fibre S*_q M, then M is a circle or the fundamental group of M is finite and the integral cohomology ring of the universal cover of M is the one of a compact rank one symmetric space.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.7290




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