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arxiv: 1309.4982 · v1 · pith:RITYPBLYnew · submitted 2013-09-19 · 🧮 math.SG · math.DS

Trapped Reeb orbits do not imply periodic ones

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We construct a contact form on R^{2n+1}, n at least 2, equal to the standard contact form outside a compact set and defining the standard contact structure on all of R^{2n+1}, which has trapped Reeb orbits, including a torus invariant under the Reeb flow, but no closed Reeb orbits. This answers a question posed by Helmut Hofer.

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