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Reeb flows with small contact volume and large return time to a global section. (English) Zbl 07893882

Summary: In this paper, we show that any co-oriented closed contact manifold of dimension at least five admits a contact form such that the contact volume is arbitrarily small but the Reeb flow admits a global hypersurface of section with the property that the minimal period on the boundary of the hypersurface and the first return time in the interior of the hypersurface are bounded below. An immediate consequence of this statement is that every co-oriented contact structure on any closed manifold admits a contact form with arbitrarily large systolic ratio. This generalizes the result of Abbondandolo et al. in dimension three to higher dimensions. The proof of the main result is inductive and uses the result of Abbondandolo et al. on large systolic ratio in dimension three in its basis step. The essential construction in the proof relies on the Giroux correspondence in higher dimensions.

MSC:

57R17 Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension
53Dxx Symplectic geometry, contact geometry

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