arXiv research

New example disproves complex contact theory for fat distributions with Reeb directions.

The Weinstein conjecture is extended to a new class of manifolds.

The paper adapts results for Reeb flows and Hamiltonian flows, showing all orbits are closed have identical periods.

Study coKähler structures on Lie algebras using Fino-Vezzoni correspondence.

In the singularity and differential topological theory of Morse functions and higher dimensional versions or fold maps and application to algebraic and differential topology of manifolds, constructing explicit fold maps and investigating their source manifolds is fundamental, important and difficult. The author has int…

The non-convexity of a smooth and compact connected component of a real algebraic plane curve can be measured by a combinatorial object called the Poincare-Reeb tree associated to the curve and to a direction of projection. In this paper we show that if the chosen projection avoids the bitangents and the inflectional t…

Optimal Reeb graphs identified for polygon decomposition.

Characterizes smooth functions on manifolds with simple Reeb spaces.

Paper connects dynamics of mechanical systems to Reeb dynamics.

A classical theorem due to Wadsley implies that, on a connected contact manifold all of whose Reeb orbits are closed, there is a common period for the Reeb orbits. In this paper we show that, for any Reeb flow on a closed connected 3-manifold, the following conditions are actually equivalent: (1) every Reeb orbit is cl…

Let $X$ be a simplicial complex with a piecewise linear function $f:X\to\mathbb{R}$. The Reeb graph $Reeb(f,X)$ is the quotient of $X$, where we collapse each connected component of $f^{-1}(t)$ to a single point. Let the nodes of $Reeb(f,X)$ be all homologically critical points where any homology of the corresponding c…

Uniform foliations with Reeb components on 3-manifolds.

We consider the setting of Reeb graphs of piecewise linear functions and study distances between them that are stable, meaning that functions which are similar in the supremum norm ought to have similar Reeb graphs. We define an edit distance for Reeb graphs and prove that it is stable and universal, meaning that it pr…

New method constructs smooth functions with specific Reeb graphs and preimages on 3D manifolds.

These are notes based on a mini-course at the conference RIEMain in Contact, held in Cagliari, Sardinia, in June 2018. The main theme is the connection between Reeb dynamics and topology. Topics discussed include traps for Reeb flows, plugs for Hamiltonian flows, the Weinstein conjecture, Reeb flows with finite numbers…

Geodesics spiral around Reeb orbits in 3D contact manifolds.

We investigate the structure of real hypersurfaces with isometric Reeb flow in Kaehler manifolds. As an application we classify real hypersurfaces with isometric Reeb flow in irreducible Hermitian symmetric spaces of compact type.

Entropy rigidity for Finsler flows but collapse for Reeb flows.

The paper explores the structure of Reeb spaces for smooth functions on manifolds.

The abstract proves that certain Reeb vector fields on 3-manifolds have Birkhoff sections.

The study estimates Reeb chords using sheaf theory and persistence.

New contact structures extend supergravity solutions.

Study of Poincaré-Reeb graphs for algebraic domains.

New method realizes planar graphs as Reeb graphs of algebraic functions.

The study finds a special type of smooth function on connected sums of manifolds.

Study Morse functions on projective plane using Reeb graphs.

We survey some results on the existence (and non-existence) of periodic Reeb orbits on contact manifolds, both in the open and closed case. We place these statements in the context of Finsler geometry by including a proof of the folklore theorem that the Finsler geodesic flow can be interpreted as a Reeb flow. As a mil…

Reeb flow made transverse to foliations without invariant measures.

We prove a version the local Reeb-Thurston stability theorem for symplectic foliations.

We review the standard Hopf construction of Reeb components with leafwise complex structure and almost determine the group of leafwise holomorphic smooth automorphisms for Reeb components of certain type in the case of complex leaf dimension one. In particular, it contains an infinite dimensional vector space.

The study of Reeb dynamics on contact manifolds without periodic orbits.

We prove that, up to homeomorphism, any graph subject to natural necessary conditions on orientation and the cycle rank can be realized as the Reeb graph of a Morse function on a given closed manifold $M$. Along the way, we show that the Reeb number $\mathcal{R}(M)$, i.e. the maximum cycle rank among all Reeb graphs of…

We provide obstructions to the existence of conformally Anosov Reeb flows on a 3-manifold that partially generalize similar obstructions to Anosov Reeb flows. In particular, we show $\mathbb{S}^3$ does not admit conformally Anosov Reeb flows. We also give a Riemannian geometric condition on a metric compatible with a c…

The Reeb space of a function or a map on a manifold is defined as the space of all connected components of preimages and represents the manifold compactly. In fact, Reeb spaces are fundamental and useful tools in geometric theory of so-called Morse functions and more general maps which are sufficiently tame. Can we con…

The study constructs K-contact manifolds with minimal closed Reeb orbits and provides conditions for their homeomorphism to spheres.

Smooth manifolds have functions with exactly two critical values.

We investigate the problem of the realization of a given graph as the Reeb graph $\mathcal{R}(f)$ of a smooth function $f\colon M\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ with finitely many critical points, where $M$ is a closed manifold. We show that for any $n\geq2$ and any graph $Γ$ admitting the so called good orientation there exis…

The study shows infinitely many Reeb orbits on star-shaped hypersurfaces with growth rate like prime numbers.

Constructing a conformal product structure on $S^3$ using the Reeb foliation.

The paper solves graph realization problems for Reeb graphs of Morse functions.

We introduce the notion of Reeb parallel structure Jacobi operator for real hypersurfaces in the complex hyperbolic quadric ${Q^*}^m=SO^0_{2,m}/SO_2 SO_m$, $m \geq 3$, and give a classification theory for real hypersurfaces in ${{Q^*}^m}$, $m \geq 3$, with Reeb parallel structure Jacobi operator.

Invites study of contact structures and Reeb flows dynamics.

In this paper we study real hypersurfaces in the complex quadric space $Q^m$ whose structure Jacobi operator commutes with their structure tensor field. We show that the Reeb curvature $α$ of such hypersurfaces is constant and if $α$ is non-zero then the hypersurface is a tube around a totally geodesic submanifold $\ma…

We study invariant submanifolds of manifolds endowed with a normal or complex metric contact pair with decomposable endomorphism field $φ$. For the normal case, we prove that a $φ$-invariant submanifold tangent to a Reeb vector field and orthogonal to the other one is minimal. For a $φ$-invariant submanifold $N$ everyw…

Researchers reconstruct algebraic maps onto curves based on prescribed Reeb graphs.

Invariant measures found for contact Hamiltonian systems split into Reeb and Liouville dynamics.

The paper tightens bounds on distances between Reeb graphs.

Proves existence of elliptic Reeb orbit on real projective 3-space using ECH.