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.
References
Primary source
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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