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Characterization of contact manifolds admitting Reeb pseudo-rotations in higher dimensions

Formulate and prove a precise characterization of higher-dimensional contact manifolds that admit Reeb pseudo-rotations, addressing the current lack of a rigorous statement of such a conjecture and a description of manifolds that do admit them.

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Background

In dimension three, the so-called 2-or-infinity conjecture is essentially resolved, and lens spaces are the only manifolds admitting Reeb pseudo-rotations. In higher dimensions, the authors speculate that most tight or fillable contact manifolds may not admit Reeb pseudo-rotations, but they explicitly note the absence of a rigorous formulation and characterization.

This open direction seeks structural criteria for the existence (or nonexistence) of Reeb pseudo-rotations across higher-dimensional contact manifolds.

References

it is not clear how to rigorously state this conjecture and a description of manifolds that do seems beyond our reach.

Closed Orbits of Dynamically Convex Reeb Flows: Towards the HZ- and Multiplicity Conjectures (2410.13093 - Cineli et al., 16 Oct 2024) in Section 1.1 (Introduction), discussion of dimension 2n−1≥5