Bott-integrable contact forms with large systolic ratio

Abstract

We show that there is no universal upper bound for the systolic ratio of Bott-integrable contact forms on closed 3-manifolds, thus providing further evidence for the relative flexibility of integrable contact forms. For the proof, we study piecewise linear approximations of Lutz forms and establish integrability of a `plug' constructed by Abbondandolo, Bramham, Hryniewicz and Salomão for pushing up the systolic ratio.

10 pages, 3 figures