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Jungsoo Kang

Seoul National University · Mathematics

About the Lab

Professor Jungsoo Kang's research lab specializes in symplectic topology and Hamiltonian dynamics, with a focus on holomorphic curve techniques and their applications to dynamical systems. The lab investigates global structures in contact and symplectic geometry, including invariant surfaces of section, leafwise intersection points, and closed Reeb orbits. A central theme is the extension of Rabinowitz Floer homology to coisotropic submanifolds, bridging Lagrangian intersection theory and periodic orbit problems. The lab also explores symmetric dynamics in reversible systems, particularly in planar and real-analytic settings.

symplectic topologyRabinowitz Floer homologyReeb orbitscoisotropic submanifoldssymmetric dynamics

Research Overview

Papers
49
Total Citations
225
Papers (5y)
14
Primary Field
Mathematics

Research Output Trend

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Publications per year (5y)
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Citations per year (5y)
27total
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Selected Papers

15
1
Article|21 citations·2016
Real holomorphic curves and invariant global surfaces of section
Urs Frauenfelder, Jungsoo Kang
SJR Q1Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society

In this paper, we prove that a dynamically convex starshaped hypersurface in <f>$\\mathbb {C}^2$</f> which is invariant under complex conjugation admits a global surface of section which is invariant under conjugation as well. We obtain this invariant global surface by embedding <f>$\\mathbb {C}^2$</f> into <f>$\\mathbb {CP}^2$</f> and applying a stretching argument to real holomorphic curves in <f>$\\mathbb {CP}^2$</f>. The motivation for this res

Geometry and TopologyMathematics
2
Article|16 citations·2013
Symplectic homology of displaceable Liouville domains and leafwise intersection points
Jungsoo Kang
SJR Q2Geometriae Dedicata
Geometry and TopologyMathematics
3
Article|13 citations·2012
Generalized Rabinowitz Floer Homology and Coisotropic Intersections
Jungsoo Kang
SJR Q1International Mathematics Research Notices

In this paper, we extend Rabinowitz Floer homology theory which has been established and extensively studied for hypersurfaces to coisotropic submanifolds of higher codimension.With this generalized version of Rabinowitz Floer homology theory, we explore the coisotropic intersection problem which interpolates between the Lagrangian intersection problem and the closed orbit problem.To be specific, we study the existence of leafwise intersection points on contact coisotropic submanifolds and the d

Geometry and TopologyMathematics
4
Article|11 citations·2011
Existence of leafwise intersection points in the unrestricted case
Jungsoo Kang
SJR Q1Israel Journal of Mathematics
Geometry and TopologyMathematics
5
Article|10 citations·2013
EQUIVARIANT SYMPLECTIC HOMOLOGY AND MULTIPLE CLOSED REEB ORBITS
Jungsoo Kang
SJR Q2International Journal of Mathematics

We study the existence of multiple closed Reeb orbits on some contact manifolds by means of S 1 -equivariant symplectic homology and the index iteration formula. We prove that a certain class of contact manifolds which admits displaceable exact contact embeddings, a certain class of prequantization bundles, and Brieskorn spheres have multiple closed Reeb orbits.

Geometry and TopologyMathematics
6
Preprint|10 citations·2009
Existence of leafwise intersection points in the unrestricted case
Jungsoo Kang
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

In this article, we study the question of existence of leafwise intersection points for contact manifolds which are not necessarily of restricted contact type. Moreover we can find a leafwise intersection point on the symplectization for special Hamiltonian functions.

Geometry and TopologyMathematics
7
Preprint|9 citations·2010
Generalized Rabinowitz Floer homology and coisotropic intersections
Jungsoo Kang
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

In this paper, we extend Rabinowitz Floer homology theory which has been established and extensively studied for hypersurfaces to coisotropic submanifolds of higher codimension. With this generalized version of Rabinowitz Floer homology theory, we explore the coisotropic intersection problem which interpolates between the Lagrangian intersection problem and the closed orbit problem. To be specific, we study the existence of leafwise intersection points on contact coisotropic submanifolds and the

Geometry and TopologyMathematics
8
Article|8 citations·2016
On reversible maps and symmetric periodic points
Jungsoo Kang
SJR Q1Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems

In reversible dynamical systems, it is of great importance to understand symmetric features. The aim of this paper is to explore symmetric periodic points of reversible maps on planar domains invariant under a reflection. We extend Franks’ theorem on a dichotomy of the number of periodic points of area-preserving maps on the annulus to symmetric periodic points of area-preserving reversible maps. Interestingly, even a non-symmetric periodic point guarantees infinitely many symmetric periodic poi

Geometry and TopologyMathematics
9
Article|7 citations·2010
Survival of infinitely many critical points for the Rabinowitz action functional
Jungsoo Kang
SJR Q1Journal of Modern DynamicsOA

In this paper, we show that if Rabinowitz Floer homology has infinitedimension, there exist infinitely many critical points of a Rabinowitz actionfunctional even though it could be non-Morse. This result is proved byexamining filtered Rabinowitz Floer homology.

Geometry and TopologyMathematics
10
Article|5 citations·2022
Relative Hofer–Zehnder capacity and positive symplectic homology
Gabriele Benedetti, Jungsoo Kang
SJR Q1Journal of Fixed Point Theory and Applications
Geometry and TopologyMathematics
11
Preprint|5 citations·2014
On reversible maps and symmetric periodic points
Jungsoo Kang
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

In reversible dynamical systems, it is frequently of importance to understand symmetric features. The aim of this paper is to explore symmetric periodic points of reversible maps on planar domains invariant under a reflection. We extend Franks' theorem on a dichotomy of the number of periodic points of area preserving maps on the annulus to symmetric periodic points of area preserving reversible maps. Interestingly, even a non-symmetric periodic point guarantees infinitely many symmetric periodi

Statistical and Nonlinear PhysicsPhysics and Astronomy
12
Article|4 citations·2014
Some remarks on symmetric periodic orbits in the restricted three-body problem
Jungsoo Kang
SJR Q1Discrete and Continuous Dynamical SystemsOA

The planar circular restricted three-body problem (PCRTBP) is symmetric with respect to the line of masses and there is a corresponding anti-symplectic involution on the cotangent bundle of the 2-sphere in the regularized PCRTBP. Recently it turned out that each bounded component of an energy hypersurface with low energy for the regularized PCRTBP is fiberwise starshaped. This enables us to define a Lagrangian Rabinowitz Floer homology which is related to periodic orbits symmetric for the anti-s

Geometry and TopologyMathematics
13
Preprint|4 citations·2010
Invariance property of Morse homology on noncompact manifolds
Jungsoo Kang
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

In this article, we focus on the invariance property of Morse homology on noncompact manifolds. We expect to apply outcomes of this article to several types of Floer homology, thus we define Morse homology purely axiomatically and algebraically. The Morse homology on noncompact manifolds generally depends on the choice of Morse functions; it is easy to see that critical points may escape along homotopies of Morse functions on noncompact manifolds. Even worse, homology classes also can escape alo

Geometry and TopologyMathematics
14
Preprint|3 citations·2013
Equivariant symplectic homology and multiple closed Reeb orbits
Jungsoo Kang
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

We study the existence of multiple closed Reeb orbits on some contact manifolds by means of $S^1$-equivariant symplectic homology and the index iteration formula. It is proved that a certain class of contact manifolds which admit displaceable exact contact embeddings, a certain class of prequantization bundles, and Brieskorn spheres have multiple closed Reeb orbits.

Geometry and TopologyMathematics
15
Preprint|2 citations·2010
Künneth Formula in Rabinowitz Floer homology
Jungsoo Kang
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

Rabinowitz Floer homology has been investigated on a submanifold of contact type. The contact condition, however, is quite restrictive. For example, a product of contact hypersurfaces is rarely of contact type. In this article, we study Rabinowitz Floer homology for a class of non-contact submanifolds. We show for this example that there are infinitely many leafwise intersection points by proving a Künneth formula for Rabinowitz Floer homology.

Geometry and TopologyMathematics

Research Areas

Geometry and TopologyApplied MathematicsMechanics of MaterialsStatistical and Nonlinear PhysicsOcean EngineeringOrthopedics and Sports Medicine

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