Abstract: | Following Frauenfelder (Rabinowitz action functional on very negative line bundles, Habilitationsschrift, Munich/München, 2008), Albers and Frauenfelder (Bubbles and onis, 2014. arXiv:1412.4360) we construct Rabinowitz Floer homology for negative line bundles over symplectic manifolds and prove a vanishing result. Ritter (Adv Math 262:1035–1106, 2014) showed that symplectic homology of these spaces does not vanish, in general. Thus, the theorem (mathrm {SH}=0Leftrightarrow mathrm {RFH}=0) (Ritter in J Topol 6(2):391–489, 2013), does not extend beyond the symplectically aspherical situation. We give a conjectural explanation in terms of the Cieliebak–Frauenfelder–Oancea long exact sequence Cieliebak et al. (Ann Sci Éc Norm Supér (4) 43(6):957–1015, 2010). |