New Anosov flows via bicontact structures

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Main Authors: Pinsky, Tali, Salmoiraghi, Federico
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Published: 2026
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author Pinsky, Tali
Salmoiraghi, Federico
author_facet Pinsky, Tali
Salmoiraghi, Federico
contents We present a new approach to hyperbolic plugs, via a construction of bicontact plugs on 3-manifolds with boundary that are surface bundles over the circle. The boundary components are quasi transverse tori, and we prove a gluing theorem that allows us to produce closed manifolds carrying new transitive Anosov flows. We show that a toroidal manifold produced by gluing two copies of the figure eight knot complement may carry many nonequivalent Anosov flows, and likewise a manifold composed of a figure eight complement and a trefoil complement. We further show that certain generalized Handel--Thurston surgeries can be realized as sequences of Goodman--Fried surgeries and produce new examples of different surgery sequences resulting in the same Anosov flow.
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spellingShingle New Anosov flows via bicontact structures
Pinsky, Tali
Salmoiraghi, Federico
Dynamical Systems
Symplectic Geometry
We present a new approach to hyperbolic plugs, via a construction of bicontact plugs on 3-manifolds with boundary that are surface bundles over the circle. The boundary components are quasi transverse tori, and we prove a gluing theorem that allows us to produce closed manifolds carrying new transitive Anosov flows. We show that a toroidal manifold produced by gluing two copies of the figure eight knot complement may carry many nonequivalent Anosov flows, and likewise a manifold composed of a figure eight complement and a trefoil complement. We further show that certain generalized Handel--Thurston surgeries can be realized as sequences of Goodman--Fried surgeries and produce new examples of different surgery sequences resulting in the same Anosov flow.
title New Anosov flows via bicontact structures
topic Dynamical Systems
Symplectic Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22250