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Contractible Closed Reeb Orbits on Prequantization Bundles under Weak Index Conditions

Peng Liu·Dong Xie
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In this paper we study the multiplicity of contractible closed Reeb orbits on prequantization circle bundles. Building on the existing multiplicity result Theorem 1.3 for closed Reeb orbits on prequantization $S^1$-bundles, we weaken the index assumptions by requiring only that the supporting contact form has no contractible periodic Reeb orbits with mean Conley-Zehnder index zero and no contractible good periodic Reeb orbits with Conley-Zehnder index 0, and we obtain a lower bound for the number of geometrically distinct contractible closed Reeb orbits carried by contact forms $α$ on a prequantization $S^1$-bundle under certain natural topological assumptions (Theorem 1.6). In dimension five we further relax the index assumptions and show that, under a mild index condition imposed only on simple contractible periodic orbits and the same topological assumptions on the prequantization $S^1$-bundle, every non-degenerate supporting contact form carries at least $\dim H_*(B;\mathbb{Q})$ geometrically distinct contractible closed Reeb orbits (Theorem 1.11), in agreement with the conjectural lower bound for prequantization bundles.

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Peng Liu, Dong Xie. 2026-10-17. Contractible Closed Reeb Orbits on Prequantization Bundles under Weak Index Conditions. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.24557

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