Global hyperbolicity conjecture for cone structures of positive contactomorphism paths

Let Σ\Sigma be a smooth manifold, let STΣST^{\ast}\Sigma denote its unit cosphere bundle, and let (ft)tR(f_t)_{t\in\mathbb R} be a positive path of contactomorphisms of STΣST^{\ast}\Sigma. Let CfC_f be the cone structure associated with this path on R×Σ\mathbb R\times\Sigma. Global hyperbolicity conjecture. The cone structure (R×Σ,Cf)(\mathbb R\times\Sigma,C_f) is globally hyperbolic. The preceding theorem establishes this when the positive path is strongly convex; the conjecture asks whether global hyperbolicity holds for arbitrary positive paths, despite the potentially nonsmooth and complicated boundary of CfC_f.

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Jakob Hedicke, “On the space of cone geodesics and positive paths of contactomorphisms”, arXiv:2512.20149 (2025).

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2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2021–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2107.07156.

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