Title: Polyfolds and the Weinstein conjecture
2017.05.08 |
Date | Wed 10 May |
Time | 13:00 — 14:00 |
Location | 1531-211 Kol-D |
Abstract
In 1979 Weinstein conjectured that any Reeb vector field on a compact contact manifold admits a periodic orbit. In my talk I will relate the conjecture to classical mechanics and to holomorphic curves in symplectic cobordisms. Moreover, I will indicate how polyfolds can be used to verify the conjecture for a large class of contact manifolds.