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Orderability, contact non-squeezing, and Rabinowitz Floer homology

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Speaker: 
Will Merry
Zugehörigkeit: 
ETH Zürich
Datum: 
Die, 12/11/2013 - 15:00 - 15:30
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall
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Extra talk
In 2000 Eliashberg-Polterovich introduced the natural notion of orderability of contact manifolds. This is closely related, as discovered by Eliashberg-Kim-Polterovich, to (non-)squeezing in contact geometry. I will explain how one can study orderability questions using the machinery of Rabinowitz Floer homology: in particular how non-vanishing of Rabinowitz Floer homology implies orderability and new non-squeezing results. I will 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.
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