Sign and vanishing conjecture for boundary strata of Reeb flows
Sign and vanishing conjecture for boundary strata of Reeb flows
Let be a smooth contact form on a compact connected manifold , and let be its boundary-generic Reeb vector field. For the boundary strata , the following assertions are conjectured.
Boundary-strata conjecture. If is even, then is a contact form away from a set of measure zero, and
while
If is odd, then is symplectic away from a set of measure zero, and
while
These assertions predict a systematic contact or symplectic structure, sign condition, and vanishing condition on the successive boundary strata of a boundary-generic Reeb flow. The source gives examples motivating the claim but no resolution evidence.
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Primary source
Gabriel Katz, “Recovering contact forms from boundary data”, arXiv:2309.14604 (2026).
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