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Contact Lie systems analyze integral curves of Hamiltonian vector fields.

The paper connects a second order ODE to Sasakian structures and bi-Hamiltonian systems.

Abstract: Study Hamiltonian systems on almost cosymplectic manifolds, extending contact Hamiltonian systems.

Let $M$ be an odd-dimensional Euclidean space endowed with a contact 1-form $α$. We investigate the space of symmetric contravariant tensor fields on $M$ as a module over the Lie algebra of contact vector fields, i.e. over the Lie subalgebra made up by those vector fields that preserve the contact structure. If we cons…

Lecture notes introduce contact complete integrability for odd-dimensional manifolds.

New Lie systems defined on $k$-contact manifolds, with applications.

A framework for precontact geometry using pairs of differential forms.

In this article we develop a theory of contact systems with nonholonomic constraints. We obtain the dynamics from Herglotz's variational principle, by restricting the variations so that they satisfy the nonholonomic constraints. We prove that the nonholonomic dynamics can be obtained as a projection of the unconstraine…

We develop a new geometric framework suitable for dealing with Hamiltonian field theories with dissipation. To this end we define the notions of $k$-contact structure and $k$-contact Hamiltonian system. This is a generalization of both the contact Hamiltonian systems in mechanics and the $k$-symplectic Hamiltonian syst…

It is shown that the characteristic vector field associated to a first order PDE has the same form of an infinitesimal generator of an odd-symplectic transformation with contact Hamiltonian the given PDE. It is considered under which condition such PDE has a characteristic vector field commuting with a generator of an …

Develops Hamilton-Jacobi theory for non-conservative field theories in k-contact geometry.

Develops k-contact geometry theory for field theories.

New geometric framework for non-conservative field theories with time-dependent terms.

This paper is concerned with the rational symplectic field theory in the Floer case. For this observe that in the general geometric setup for symplectic field theory the contact manifolds can be replaced by mapping tori of symplectic manifolds with symplectomorphisms. While the cylindrical contact homology is given by …

Survey reviews Hamilton-Jacobi theory in various geometric settings, focusing on Jacobi and Leibniz identities.

We give the characterization of Arnol'd-Mather type for stable singular Legendre immersions. The most important building block of the theory is providing a module structure on the space of infinitesimal integral deformations by means of the notion of natural liftings of differential systems and of contact Hamiltonian v…

Study investigates Hamiltonian systems in fibered almost-symplectic manifolds.

We use the equivalence between embedded contact homology and Seiberg-Witten Floer homology to obtain the following improvements on the Weinstein conjecture. Let Y be a closed oriented connected 3-manifold with a stable Hamiltonian structure, and let R denote the associated Reeb vector field on Y. We prove that if Y is …

Develop contact Tulczyjew formalism for dissipative dynamics on skew algebroids.

The paper provides a geometric framework for understanding non-equilibrium thermodynamics.

In this paper we study K-cosymplectic manifolds, i.e., smooth cosymplectic manifolds for which the Reeb field is Killing with respect to some Riemannian metric. These structures generalize coKähler structures, in the same way as K-contact structures generalize Sasakian structures. In analogy to the contact case, we dis…

Unified Jacobi coupling construction for various geometric settings.

We consider the Lie algebra of all vector fields on a contact manifold as a module over the Lie subalgebra of contact vector fields. This module is split into a direct sum of two submodules: the contact algebra itself and the space of tangent vector fields. We study the geometric nature of these two modules.

The paper examines timelike conformal fields on 3-manifolds and finds they are rigidly tied to specific geometric structures.

We develop a systematic approach to contact and Jacobi structures on graded supermanifolds. In this framework, contact structures are interpreted as symplectic principal GL(1,R)-bundles. Gradings compatible with the GL(1,R)-action lead to the concept of a graded contact manifold, in particular a linear (more generally,…

Enhances Hamiltonian systems stability through generalized double bracket vector fields.

Develops geometric framework for dissipative field equations.

Geodesic vector fields on flat 3-manifolds are related to contact structures.

The paper simplifies proofs and characterizes contact structures in 3D.

The paper studies $η-$Ricci solitons on contact pseudo-metric manifolds and their properties.

Let $(M,ω)$ be an almost symplectic manifold ($ω$ is a non degenerate, not closed, 2-form). We say that a vector field $X$ of $M$ is locally Hamiltonian if $L_Xω=0,d(i(X)ω)=0$, and it is Hamiltonian if, furthermore, the 1-form $i(X)ω$ is exact. Such vector fields were considered in a 2007 paper by F. Fasso and N. Sanso…

Study on Yamabe solitons on specific complex manifolds, focusing on torse-forming vector fields.

We determine the universal central extension of the Lie algebra of hamiltonian vector fields, thereby classifying its central extensions. Furthermore, we classify the central extensions of the Lie algebra of symplectic vector fields, of the Poisson Lie algebra, and of its compactly supported version.

On a manifold equipped with a bivector field, we introduce for every Hamiltonian a Lagrangian on paths valued in the cotangent space whose stationary points projects onto Hamiltonian vector fields. We show that the remaining components of those stationary points tell whether the bivector field is Poisson or at least de…

Analyzes perturbed contact instantons with Legendrian boundary conditions using geometric analysis.

The paper characterizes Kenmotsu metrics as almost $*$-Ricci solitons.

The study classifies contact metric manifolds based on Ricci-Yamabe solitons.

The author discusses in some detail the old definitions of the curvature tensors for rigged metrized distributions on manifolds given by Schouten, Wagner, and Solov'ev. To calculate the Solov'ev sectional and Ricci curvatures for homogeneous sub-Riemannian manifolds, the author suggests to use in some cases special rig…

New geometric structures that relate the lagrangian and hamiltonian formalisms defined upon a singular lagrangian are presented. Several vector fields are constructed in velocity space that give new and precise answers to several topics like the projectability of a vector field to a hamiltonian vector field, the comput…

We provide some examples of harmonic unit vector fields as normalized gradients of isoparametric functions from a K-contact geometry setting.

We introduce G_2-vector fields, Rochesterian 1-forms and Rochesterian vector fields on manifolds with a closed G_2-structure as analogues of symplectic vector fields, Hamiltonian functions and Hamiltonian vector fields respectively, and we show that the spaces of G_2-vector fields and of Rochesterian vector fields are …

The aim of this article is to study the k-almost Ricci soliton and k-almost gradient Ricci soliton on contact metric manifold. First, we prove that if a compact K-contact metric is a k-almost gradient Ricci soliton then it is isometric to a unit sphere S2n+1. Next, we extend this result on a compact k-almost Ricci soli…

Develops integrators for contact Hamiltonian systems preserving geometric structure.

Paper introduces Eden bracket for nonholonomic systems.

The abstract proves that certain Reeb vector fields on 3-manifolds have Birkhoff sections.

First, we review the notion of a Poisson structure on a noncommutative algebra due to Block-Getzler and Xu and introduce a notion of a Hamiltonian vector field on a noncommutative Poisson algebra. Then we describe a Poisson structure on a noncommutative algebra associated with a transversely symplectic foliation and co…

We show that $φ$-invariant submanifolds of metric contact pairs with orthogonal characteristic foliations make constant angles with the Reeb vector fields. Our main result is that for the normal case such submanifolds of dimension at least $2$ are all minimal. We prove that an odd-dimensional $φ$-invariant submanifold …

Study the commutativity of reduction and symplectification in contact Hamiltonian systems.