Quantitative embedded contact homology

M Hutchings - Journal of Differential Geometry, 2011 - projecteuclid.org
Define a “Liouville domain” to be a compact exact symplectic manifold with contact-type
boundary. We use embedded contact homology to assign to each four-dimensional Liouville …

Lecture notes on embedded contact homology

M Hutchings - Contact and symplectic topology, 2014 - Springer
These notes give an introduction to embedded contact homology (ECH) of contact three-
manifolds, gathering together many basic notions which are scattered across a number of …

From one Reeb orbit to two

D Cristofaro-Gardiner, M Hutchings - Journal of Differential …, 2016 - projecteuclid.org
We show that every (possibly degenerate) contact form on a closed three-manifold has at
least two embedded Reeb orbits. We also show that if there are only finitely many …

The asymptotics of ECH capacities

D Cristofaro-Gardiner, M Hutchings… - Inventiones …, 2015 - Springer
In a previous paper, the second author used embedded contact homology (ECH) of contact
three-manifolds to define “ECH capacities” of four-dimensional symplectic manifolds. In the …

Recent progress on symplectic embedding problems in four dimensions

M Hutchings - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
We survey some recent progress on understanding when one four-dimensional symplectic
manifold can be symplectically embedded into another. In 2010, McDuff established a …

Torsion contact forms in three dimensions have two or infinitely many Reeb orbits

D Cristofaro-Gardiner, M Hutchings, D Pomerleano - Geometry & Topology, 2019 - msp.org
We prove that every nondegenerate contact form on a closed connected three-manifold
such that the associated contact structure has torsion first Chern class has either two or …

Symplectic embeddings into four-dimensional concave toric domains

K Choi, D Cristofaro-Gardiner, D Frenkel… - Journal of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
ECH (embedded contact homology) capacities give obstructions to symplectically
embedding one symplectic four-manifold with boundary into another. We compute the ECH …

Periodic Floer homology and the smooth closing lemma for area-preserving surface diffeomorphisms

D Cristofaro-Gardiner, R Prasad, B Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
We prove a very general Weyl-type law for Periodic Floer Homology, estimating the action of
twisted Periodic Floer Homology classes over essentially any coefficient ring in terms of the …

Proof of the simplicity conjecture

D Cristofaro-Gardiner, V Humilière… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
In the 1970s, Fathi, having proven that the group of compactly supported volume-preserving
homeomorphisms of the $ n $-ball is simple for $ n\ge 3$, asked if the same statement holds …

Proof of Hofer-Wysocki-Zehnder's two or infinity conjecture

D Cristofaro-Gardiner, U Hryniewicz… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We prove that every Reeb flow on a closed connected three-manifold has either two or
infinitely many simple periodic orbits, assuming that the associated contact structure has …