Abstract
We establish a relation between the growth of the cylindrical contact homology of a contact manifold and the topological entropy of Reeb flows on this manifold. We show that if a contact manifold admits a hypertight contact form for which the cylindrical contact homology has exponential homotopical growth rate, then the Reeb flow of every contact form on has positive topological entropy. Using this result, we provide numerous new examples of contact –manifolds on which every Reeb flow has positive topological entropy.
Citation
Marcelo Alves. "Cylindrical contact homology and topological entropy." Geom. Topol. 20 (6) 3519 - 3569, 2016. https://doi.org/10.2140/gt.2016.20.3519
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