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Odd-symplectic forms via surgery and minimality in symplectic dynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2018

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KAI ZEHMISCH
HANSJÖRG GEIGES
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Mathematisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Weyertal 86–90, 50931 Köln, Germany email [email protected]
KAI ZEHMISCH
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Mathematisches Institut, Universität Gießen, Arndtstraße 2, 35392 Gießen, Germany email [email protected]
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Abstract

We construct an infinite family of odd-symplectic forms (also known as Hamiltonian structures) on the $3$-sphere $S^{3}$ that do not admit a symplectic cobordism to the standard contact structure on $S^{3}$. This answers in the negative a question raised by Joel Fish motivated by the search for minimal characteristic flows.

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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 40 , Issue 3 , March 2020 , pp. 699 - 713
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© Cambridge University Press, 2018 

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