JournalscmhVol. 80, No. 4pp. 771–793

The Weinstein conjecture for planar contact structures in dimension three

  • Casim Abbas

    Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

  • Kai Cieliebak

    Universität Augsburg, Germany

  • Helmut W. Hofer

    Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA
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Abstract

In this paper we describe a general strategy for approaching the Weinstein conjecture in dimension three. We apply this approach to prove the Weinstein conjecture for a new class of contact manifolds (planar contact manifolds). We also discuss how the present approach reduces the general Weinstein conjecture in dimension three to a compactness problem for the solution set of a first order elliptic PDE.

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Casim Abbas, Kai Cieliebak, Helmut W. Hofer, The Weinstein conjecture for planar contact structures in dimension three. Comment. Math. Helv. 80 (2005), no. 4, pp. 771–793

DOI 10.4171/CMH/34