1. Orbit growth of contact structures after surgery
- Author
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Anne Vaugon, Boris Hasselblatt, Patrick Foulon, Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques (CIRM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Mathematics, Tufts University, Tufts University, Tufts University [Medford]-Tufts University [Medford], Laboratoire de Mathématiques d'Orsay (LMO), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Boris Hasselblatt partially supported by the Committee on Faculty Research Awards of Tufts University., and ANR-16-CE40-0017,Quantact,Topologie quantique et géométrie de contact(2016)
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Anosov flow ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Dynamical systems theory ,Contact geometry ,[MATH.MATH-DS]Mathematics [math]/Dynamical Systems [math.DS] ,Ocean Engineering ,Context (language use) ,Dynamical Systems (math.DS) ,Homology (mathematics) ,Reeb flow ,01 natural sciences ,surgery ,Intersection ,0103 physical sciences ,FOS: Mathematics ,medicine ,Mathematics - Dynamical Systems ,0101 mathematics ,Mathematics::Symplectic Geometry ,3-manifold ,Mathematics ,contact structure ,010102 general mathematics ,contact homology ,Mathematics::Geometric Topology ,[MATH.MATH-SG]Mathematics [math]/Symplectic Geometry [math.SG] ,Surgery ,Flow (mathematics) ,Mathematics - Symplectic Geometry ,Orbit (dynamics) ,Symplectic Geometry (math.SG) ,010307 mathematical physics - Abstract
This work is at the intersection of dynamical systems and contact geometry, and it focuses on the effects of a contact surgery adapted to the study of Reeb fields and on the effects of invariance of contact homology. We show that this contact surgery produces an increased dynamical complexity for all Reeb flows compatible with the new contact structure. We study Reeb Anosov fields on closed 3manifolds that are not topologically orbit-equivalent to any algebraic flow; this includes many examples on hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Our study also includes results of exponential growth in cases where neither the flow nor the manifold obtained by surgery is hyperbolic, as well as results when the original flow is periodic. This work fully demonstrates, in this context, the relevance of contact homology to the analysis of the dynamics of Reeb fields.
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- 2021