scholarly journals Periodic orbits in virtually contact structures

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (02) ◽  
pp. 371-418
Author(s):  
Youngjin Bae ◽  
Kevin Wiegand ◽  
Kai Zehmisch
Keyword(s):  
Periodic Solutions ◽  
Potential Function ◽  
Periodic Orbits ◽  
Hamiltonian Systems ◽  
Contact Structure ◽  
Critical Value ◽  
Holomorphic Curves ◽  
Contact Structures ◽  
Contact Form ◽  
Contact Manifolds

We prove that certain non-exact magnetic Hamiltonian systems on products of closed hyperbolic surfaces and with a potential function of large oscillation admit non-constant contractible periodic solutions of energy below the Mañé critical value. For that we develop a theory of holomorphic curves in symplectizations of non-compact contact manifolds that arise as the covering space of a virtually contact structure whose contact form is bounded with all derivatives up to order three.

On the non-regularity of tangent sphere bundles

1978 ◽  
Vol 82 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 13-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
David E. Blair
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Large Class ◽  
Constant Curvature ◽  
Positive Constant ◽  
Contact Structure ◽  
Compact Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Contact Structures ◽  
Sphere Bundle ◽  
Contact Manifolds ◽  
Tangent Sphere

SynopsisClassically the tangent sphere bundles have formed a large class of contact manifolds; their contact structures are not in general regular, however. Specifically we prove that the natural contact structure on the tangent sphere bundle of a compact Riemannian manifold of non-positive constant curvature is not regular.

scholarly journals The Lusternik–Fet theorem for autonomous Tonelli Hamiltonian systems on twisted cotangent bundles

2016 ◽  
Vol 08 (03) ◽  
pp. 545-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Asselle ◽  
Gabriele Benedetti
Keyword(s):  
Periodic Orbits ◽  
Hamiltonian Systems ◽  
Symplectic Form ◽  
Critical Value ◽  
Closed Manifold ◽  
Hamiltonian Flow ◽  
Cotangent Bundles ◽  
Almost All

Let [Formula: see text] be a closed manifold and consider the Hamiltonian flow associated to an autonomous Tonelli Hamiltonian [Formula: see text] and a twisted symplectic form. In this paper we study the existence of contractible periodic orbits for such a flow. Our main result asserts that if [Formula: see text] is not aspherical, then contractible periodic orbits exist for almost all energies above the maximum critical value of [Formula: see text].

scholarly journals Reeb periodic orbits after a bypass attachment

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 615-672
Author(s):  
ANNE VAUGON
Keyword(s):  
Periodic Orbits ◽  
Contact Structure ◽  
Convex Surface ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Contact Manifold ◽  
Contact Structures ◽  
Contact Homology ◽  
Reeb Vector ◽  
Reeb Vector Field ◽  
Manifold With Boundary

AbstractOn a three-dimensional contact manifold with boundary, a bypass attachment is an elementary change of the contact structure consisting in the attachment of a thickened half-disc with a prescribed contact structure along an arc on the boundary. We give a model bypass attachment in which we describe the periodic orbits of the Reeb vector field created by the bypass attachment in terms of Reeb chords of the attachment arc. As an application, we compute the contact homology of a product neighbourhood of a convex surface after a bypass attachment, and the contact homology of some contact structures on solid tori.

scholarly journals Space time manifolds and contact structures

1990 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 545-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. L. Duggal
Keyword(s):  
Contact Structure ◽  
Contact Manifold ◽  
Contact Structures ◽  
Timelike Vector ◽  
Contact Manifolds ◽  
New Class ◽  
Dimensional Spacetime ◽  
Globally Hyperbolic Spacetimes ◽  
Hyperbolic Spacetimes ◽  
Regular Contact

A new class of contact manifolds (carring a global non-vanishing timelike vector field) is introduced to establish a relation between spacetime manifolds and contact structures. We show that odd dimensional strongly causal (in particular, globally hyperbolic) spacetimes can carry a regular contact structure. As examples, we present a causal spacetime with a non regular contact structure and a physical model [Gödel Universe] of Homogeneous contact manifold. Finally, we construct a model of 4-dimensional spacetime of general relativity as a contact CR-submanifold.

scholarly journals A Survey of Riemannian Contact Geometry

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
David E. Blair
Keyword(s):  
Contact Structure ◽  
Positive Curvature ◽  
Contact Geometry ◽  
Contact Structures ◽  
Contact Manifolds ◽  
3 Dimensional ◽  
Contact Metric Manifolds ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Mere Existence ◽  
Curvature Functionals

AbstractThis survey is a presentation of the five lectures on Riemannian contact geometry that the author gave at the conference “RIEMain in Contact”, 18-22 June 2018 in Cagliari, Sardinia. The author was particularly pleased to be asked to give this presentation and appreciated the organizers’ kindness in dedicating the conference to him. Georges Reeb once made the comment that the mere existence of a contact form on a manifold should in some sense “tighten up” the manifold. The statement seemed quite pertinent for a conference that brought together both geometers and topologists working on contact manifolds, whether in terms of “tight” vs. “overtwisted” or whether an associated metric should have some positive curvature. The first section will lay down the basic definitions and examples of the subject of contact metric manifolds. The second section will be a continuation of the first discussing tangent sphere bundles, contact structures on 3-dimensional Lie groups and a brief treatment of submanifolds. Section III will be devoted to the curvature of contact metric manifolds. Section IV will discuss complex contact manifolds and some older style topology. Section V treats curvature functionals and Ricci solitons. A sixth section has been added giving a discussion of the question of whether a Riemannian metric g can be an associated metric for more than one contact structure; at the conference this was an addendum to the third lecture.

Periodic solutions of a class of Hamiltonian systems with singularities

1990 ◽  
Vol 114 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Ambrosetti ◽  
Ivar Ekeland
Keyword(s):  
Periodic Solutions ◽  
Periodic Orbits ◽  
Hamiltonian Systems ◽  
Configuration Space ◽  
Autonomous System ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
Unperturbed Problem ◽  
Time Periodic

SynopsisThis paper deals with a class of time-periodic Hamiltonian systems obtained by a time-dependent perturbation from an autonomous system with a singularity at q = 0 in configuration space. It is shown that, T being the period of the perturbation, nondegenerate families of T-periodic orbits in the unperturbed problem branch off into a certain number of T-periodic orbits for the perturbed problem.

scholarly journals Sasaki–Ricci Flow and Deformations of Contact Action–Angle Coordinates on Spaces T1,1 and Yp,q

Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 591
Author(s):  
Mihai Visinescu
Keyword(s):  
Vector Field ◽  
Hamiltonian Systems ◽  
Ricci Flow ◽  
Contact Structures ◽  
Contact Form ◽  
Einstein Manifolds ◽  
Integrable Hamiltonian Systems ◽  
Reeb Vector ◽  
Reeb Vector Field ◽  
Completely Integrable Hamiltonian Systems

In this paper, we are concerned with completely integrable Hamiltonian systems and generalized action–angle coordinates in the setting of contact geometry. We investigate the deformations of the Sasaki–Einstein structures, keeping the Reeb vector field fixed, but changing the contact form. We examine the modifications of the action–angle coordinates by the Sasaki–Ricci flow. We then pass to the particular cases of the contact structures of the five-dimensional Sasaki–Einstein manifolds T1,1 and Yp,q.

Detection of Periodic Orbits in Hamiltonian Systems Using Lagrangian Descriptors

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (14) ◽  
pp. 1750225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atanasiu Stefan Demian ◽  
Stephen Wiggins
Keyword(s):  
Phase Space ◽  
Periodic Solutions ◽  
Periodic Orbits ◽  
Hamiltonian Systems ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Space Structure ◽  
Two Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Phase Space Structure ◽  
Lyapunov Orbits ◽  
Lagrangian Descriptors

The purpose of this paper is to apply Lagrangian Descriptors, a concept used to describe phase space structure, to autonomous Hamiltonian systems with two degrees of freedom in order to detect periodic solutions. We propose a method for Hamiltonian systems with saddle-center equilibrium and apply this approach to the classical Hénon–Heiles system. The method was successful in locating the unstable Lyapunov orbits in phase space.

scholarly journals On Subcritically Stein Fillable 5-manifolds

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fan Ding ◽  
Hansjörg Geiges ◽  
Guangjian Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Group ◽  
Contact Structure ◽  
Contact Structures ◽  
Homotopy Classification ◽  
Contact Manifolds ◽  
Almost Contact Structure ◽  
Diffeomorphism Type ◽  
Standard Contact ◽  
Simply Connected

AbstractWe make some elementary observations concerning subcritically Stein fillable contact structures on 5-manifolds. Specifically, we determine the diffeomorphism type of such contact manifolds in the case where the fundamental group is finite cyclic, and we show that on the 5-sphere, the standard contact structure is the unique subcritically ?llable one. More generally, it is shown that subcritically fillable contact structures on simply connected 5-manifolds are determined by their underlying almost contact structure. Along the way, we discuss the homotopy classification of almost contact structures.

scholarly journals Periodic solutions of Euler-Lagrange equations with sublinear potentials in an Orlicz-Sobolev space setting

2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Sonia Acinas ◽  
Fernando Mazzone
Keyword(s):  
Sobolev Space ◽  
Periodic Solutions ◽  
Potential Function ◽  
Calculus Of Variations ◽  
Hamiltonian Systems ◽  
Direct Method ◽  
Existence Results ◽  
Lagrange Equations ◽  
Space Setting

In this paper, we obtain existence results of periodic solutions of hamiltonian systems in the Orlicz-Sobolev space \(W^1L^\Phi([0,T])\). We employ the direct method of calculus of variations and we consider  a potential  function \(F\) satisfying the inequality \(|\nabla F(t,x)|\leq b_1(t) \Phi_0'(|x|)+b_2(t)\), with \(b_1, b_2\in L^1\) and  certain \(N\)-functions \(\Phi_0\).

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document