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Closed Reeb orbits on the sphere and symplectically degenerate maxima
Viktor L. Ginzburg
,
Doris Hein
,
Umberto L. Hryniewicz
,
Leonardo Macarini
Abstract
We show that the existence of one simple closed Reeb orbit of a particular type (a symplectically degenerate maximum) forces the Reeb flow to have infinitely many periodic orbits. We use this result to give a different proof of a recent theorem of Cristofaro-Gardiner and Hutchings asserting that every Reeb flow on the standard contact three-sphere has at least two periodic orbits. Our methods are based on adapting the machinery originally developed for proving the Hamiltonian Conley conjecture to the contact setting.