Birkhoff-section existence conjecture for nondegenerate Reeb vector fields

Let MM be a closed 33-manifold and let RR be a nondegenerate Reeb vector field on MM. A Birkhoff section is a surface with boundary whose interior is embedded and transverse to RR, whose boundary is immersed and composed of periodic orbits, and which intersects every orbit of RR 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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