Birkhoff-section existence conjecture for nondegenerate Reeb vector fields
Birkhoff-section existence conjecture for nondegenerate Reeb vector fields
Let be a closed -manifold and let be a nondegenerate Reeb vector field on . A Birkhoff section is a surface with boundary whose interior is embedded and transverse to , whose boundary is immersed and composed of periodic orbits, and which intersects every orbit of within bounded time. Birkhoff-section existence conjecture. Every nondegenerate Reeb vector field has a Birkhoff section. The source presents this as a conjecture, but the supplied context does not establish whether it is open or resolved.
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Vincent Colin, Pierre Dehornoy and Ana Rechtman, “On the existence of supporting broken book decompositions for contact forms in dimension 3”, arXiv:2001.01448 (2022).
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