Contact homology of orbit complements and implied existence

DOI10.3934/JMD.2011.5.409MaRDI QIDQ660073zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Al Momin

Publication date 25 January 2012

Published in Journal of Modern Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.1386

zbMATH Keywords

contact homologyimplied existenceintersection theoryperiodic orbitpseudo-holomorphic curvesReeb vector field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic field theory; contact homology (53D42)

Abstract: For Reeb vector fields on closed 3-manifolds, cylindrical contact homology is used to show that the existence of a set of closed Reeb orbit with certain knotting/linking properties implies the existence of other Reeb orbits with other knotting/linking properties relative to the original set. We work out a few examples on the 3-sphere to illustrate the theory, and describe an application to closed geodesics on $S^2$ (a version of a result due to Angenent).

Review text

The paper under review addresses a general question regarding the possibility to deduce the existence of other closed Reeb orbits from a known set of closed Reeb orbits. For this question, the author presents one approach for a set of closed Reeb orbits with certain knotting or linking properties. In particular, he uses the cylinderical contact homology on Reeb orbit complements and its computations given by Colin and Honda in order to support his approach in certain cases on the 3-sphere. The paper consists of six sections. In Section 2, some geometric and analytic materials are recalled. Section 3 is devoted to explaining an intersection theory for pseudo-holomorphic curves in symplectizations and deriving some compactness results. Sections 4 describes some necessary chain complexes, maps between them, and so on. In Section 5, one instance with certain knotting or linking properties to give an affirmative answer to the general question, called the implied existence result, is proved. Finally, in Section 6, the author works out some explicit examples on the 3-sphere, in detail.

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