Legendrian contact homology and topological entropy

Nom de l'orateur
Marcelo Alvez
Etablissement de l'orateur
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Date et heure de l'exposé
Lieu de l'exposé
Salle des séminaires

In this talk I will explain how Legendrian contact homology can be used to obtain positive lower bounds for the topological entropy of Reeb flows on contact 3-manifolds. As an application, we obtain many new examples of contact 3-manifolds on which every Reeb flow has positive topological entropy.