scholarly journals The Weinstein conjecture for planar contact structures in dimension three

2005 ◽  
pp. 771-793 ◽  
Author(s):  
Casim Abbas ◽  
Kai Cieliebak ◽  
Helmut Hofer
Keyword(s):  
Contact Structures ◽  
Weinstein Conjecture ◽  
Planar Contact

scholarly journals EXPLICIT HORIZONTAL OPEN BOOKS ON SOME PLUMBINGS

2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (09) ◽  
pp. 1013-1031 ◽  
Author(s):  
TOLGA ETGÜ ◽  
BURAK OZBAGCI
Keyword(s):  
Contact Structure ◽  
Complex Surface ◽  
Contact Structures ◽  
Open Book ◽  
Open Books ◽  
Tight Contact ◽  
Weinstein Conjecture ◽  
Circle Bundles ◽  
Surface Singularities

We describe explicit open books on arbitrary plumbings of oriented circle bundles over closed oriented surfaces. We show that, for a non-positive plumbing, the open book we construct is horizontal and the corresponding compatible contact structure is also horizontal and Stein fillable. In particular, on some Seifert fibered 3-manifolds we describe open books which are horizontal with respect to their plumbing description. As another application we describe horizontal open books isomorphic to Milnor open books for some complex surface singularities. Moreover we give examples of tight contact 3-manifolds supported by planar open books. As a consequence, the Weinstein conjecture holds for these tight contact structures [1].

scholarly journals Planarity in Higher-Dimensional Contact Manifolds

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bahar Acu ◽  
Agustin Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Higher Dimensions ◽  
Symplectic Manifolds ◽  
Contact Form ◽  
Contact Manifolds ◽  
Contact Type ◽  
Weinstein Conjecture ◽  
Higher Dimensional ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Weak Contact ◽  
Planar Contact

Abstract We obtain several results for (iterated) planar contact manifolds in higher dimensions. (1) Iterated planar contact manifolds are not weakly symplectically co-fillable. This generalizes a 3D result of Etnyre [ 14] to a higher-dimensional setting, where the notion of weak fillability is that due to Massot-Niederkrüger-Wendl [ 38]. (2) They do not arise as nonseparating weak contact-type hypersurfaces in closed symplectic manifolds. This generalizes a result by Albers-Bramham-Wendl [ 4]. (3) They satisfy the Weinstein conjecture, that is, every contact form admits a closed Reeb orbit. This is proved by an alternative approach as that of [ 2] and is a higher-dimensional generalization of a result of Abbas-Cieliebak-Hofer [ 1]. The results follow as applications from a suitable symplectic handle attachment, which bears some independent interest.

scholarly journals Surface singularities and planar contact structures

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 1791-1823
Author(s):  
Paolo Ghiggini ◽  
Marco Golla ◽  
Olga Plamenevskaya
Keyword(s):  
Contact Structures ◽  
Surface Singularities ◽  
Planar Contact

On the classification of certain planar contact structures

2011 ◽  
Vol 134 (4) ◽  
pp. 529-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Firat Arikan ◽  
Selahi Durusoy
Keyword(s):  
Contact Structures ◽  
Planar Contact

Symplectic capacities

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dusa McDuff ◽  
Dietmar Salamon
Keyword(s):  
Euclidean Space ◽  
Generating Functions ◽  
Weinstein Conjecture ◽  
Finite Dimensional ◽  
Hofer Metric

This chapter returns to the problems which were formulated in Chapter 1, namely the Weinstein conjecture, the nonsqueezing theorem, and symplectic rigidity. These questions are all related to the existence and properties of symplectic capacities. The chapter begins by discussing some of the consequences which follow from the existence of capacities. In particular, it establishes symplectic rigidity and discusses the relation between capacities and the Hofer metric on the group of Hamiltonian symplectomorphisms. The chapter then introduces the Hofer–Zehnder capacity, and shows that its existence gives rise to a proof of the Weinstein conjecture for hypersurfaces of Euclidean space. The last section contains a proof that the Hofer–Zehnder capacity satisfies the required axioms. This proof translates the Hofer–Zehnder variational argument into the setting of (finite-dimensional) generating functions.

Autonomous Geometrical Mechanics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Mann
Keyword(s):  
Phase Space ◽  
Contact Structure ◽  
Invariant Tori ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
Contact Structures ◽  
Natural Setting ◽  
Adiabatic Invariance ◽  
Jet Bundle ◽  
Integrability Theorem ◽  
Extended Phase

This chapter examines the structure of the phase space of an integrable system as being constructed from invariant tori using the Arnold–Liouville integrability theorem, and periodic flow and ergodic flow are investigated using action-angle theory. Time-dependent mechanics is formulated by extending the symplectic structure to a contact structure in an extended phase space before it is shown that mechanics has a natural setting on a jet bundle. The chapter then describes phase space of integrable systems and how tori behave when time-dependent dynamics occurs. Adiabatic invariance is discussed, as well as slow and fast Hamiltonian systems, the Hannay angle and counter adiabatic terms. In addition, the chapter discusses foliation, resonant tori, non-resonant tori, contact structures, Pfaffian forms, jet manifolds and Stokes’s theorem.

scholarly journals Contact structures and reducible surgeries

2015 ◽  
Vol 152 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tye Lidman ◽  
Steven Sivek
Keyword(s):  
Contact Structures ◽  
Surgery Theory ◽  
Contact Topology ◽  
Exceptional Surgery ◽  
Genus 2 ◽  
Cabling Conjecture

We apply results from both contact topology and exceptional surgery theory to study when Legendrian surgery on a knot yields a reducible manifold. As an application, we show that a reducible surgery on a non-cabled positive knot of genus$g$must have slope$2g-1$, leading to a proof of the cabling conjecture for positive knots of genus 2. Our techniques also produce bounds on the maximum Thurston–Bennequin numbers of cables.

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