Orderability and the Weinstein Conjecture

Nom de l'orateur
Will Merry
Etablissement de l'orateur
ETH Zurich
Date et heure de l'exposé
Lieu de l'exposé
Salle des séminaires

Joint work with Peter Albers and Urs Fuchs. In 2000 Eliashberg-Polterovich introduced the natural notion of orderability of contact manifolds; that is, the (non)existence of positive loops of contactomorphisms. I will explain how one can study orderability questions using the machinery of Rabinowitz Floer homology. We establish a link between orderable and hypertight contact manifolds, and show that the Weinstein Conjecture holds (i.e. there exists a closed Reeb orbit) whenever there exists a positive (not necessarily contractible) loop of contactomorphisms.