Weinstein's conjecture for rotational Beltrami flows
Weinstein's conjecture for rotational Beltrami flows
Let be a Riemannian three-manifold. A rotational Beltrami flow is a smooth steady-state flow whose vector field is parallel to its curl; here smooth means . A closed orbit is a periodic flowline.
Hydrodynamical Weinstein conjecture. Every smooth rotational Beltrami flow on a Riemannian three-manifold has a closed orbit.
Via the correspondence between nonsingular Beltrami fields and Reeb fields, this is the hydrodynamical formulation of the Weinstein conjecture. The paper derives the claim on from Hofer's theorem and presents the general statement as a conjecture.
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J. Etnyre and R. Ghrist, “Contact Topology and Hydrodynamics”, arXiv:dg-ga/9708011 (1997).
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