Strong closing property of contact forms and action selecting functors

Abstract

We introduce a notion of strong closing property of contact forms, inspired by the $C^{\infty }$ closing lemma for Reeb flows in dimension three. We then prove a sufficient criterion for strong closing property, which is formulated by considering a monoidal functor from a category of manifolds with contact forms to a category of filtered vector spaces. As a potential application of this criterion, we propose a conjecture which says that a standard contact form on the boundary of any symplectic ellipsoid satisfies strong closing property.

22 pages, revised following referee comments