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The paper finds a contact form on SL(2p) for p > 1.

If a closed 3-manifold M supports a closed, nonsingular, irrational 1-form which linearly deforms into contact forms, then M supports a K-contact form. On the 3-torus, a closed nonsingular 1-form deforms linearly into contact forms if and only if it is a fibration 1-form. on any other 2-torus bundle over the circle, ev…

3D contact manifolds have optimal higher systolic ratios.

The paper classifies K-contact forms on 3-manifolds and connects their orbits to spectral invariants.

Normalizes pseudo-Einstein contact forms for easier analysis.

If a contact form on a (2n+1)-dimensional closed contact manifold admits closed Reeb orbits, then its systolic ration is defined to be the quotient of (n+1)th power of the shortest period of Reeb orbits by the contact volume. We prove that every co-orientable contact structure on any closed contact manifold admits a co…

Local normal forms for symmetrical contact structures on 3-manifolds.

The systolic ratio of a contact form on a closed three-manifold is the quotient of the square of the shortest period of closed Reeb orbits by the contact volume. We show that every co-orientable contact structure on any closed three-manifold is defined by a contact form with arbitrarily large systolic ratio. This shows…

New systolic inequality for 3D contact forms on Seifert bundles.

This thesis extends contact structures to differentiable stacks using line bundle-valued 1-forms.

We prove Gray--Moser stability theorems for complementary pairs of forms of constant class defining symplectic pairs, contact-symplectic pairs and contact pairs. We also consider the case of contact-symplectic and contact-contact structures, in which the constant class condition on a one-form is replaced by the conditi…

Symplectic capacities of domains near balls are well-defined, but not for all $C^1$-close domains.

Certain basic inequalities between intrinsic and extrinsic invariants for a submanifold in a (k, m)-contact space form are obtained. As applications we get some results for invariant submanifolds in a (k,m)-contact space form.

Sharp systolic inequality for invariant tight contact forms on S1-bundles over S2.

Study on contact forms with constant curvature on CR manifolds.

The systolic ratio of a contact form $α$ on the three-sphere is the quantity \[ ρ_{\mathrm{sys}}(α) = \frac{T_{\min}(α)^2}{\mathrm{vol}(S^3,α\wedge dα)}, \] where $T_{\min}(α)$ is the minimal period of closed Reeb orbits on $(S^3,α)$. A Zoll contact form is a contact form such that all the orbits of the corresponding R…

Paper proves inequalities for forms on sub-Riemannian manifolds.

A pseudo-Einstein contact form plays a crucial role in defining some global invariants of closed strictly pseudoconvex CR manifolds. In this paper, we prove that the existence of a pseudo-Einstein contact form is preserved under deformations as a real hypersurface in a fixed complex manifold of complex dimension at lea…

Researchers provide explicit parametrizations for Sasakian space forms.

The study connects contact forms and Ruelle invariant in convex domains.

Study on curvature properties of N(κ)-contact metric manifolds with generalized Tanaka-Webster connection.

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

New contact structures on folded sums of contact mapping tori are tight under certain conditions.

The paper recovers contact forms from boundary data using vector fields and Lyapunov functions.

Let $α$ be a contact form on a connected closed three-manifold $Σ$. The systolic ratio of $α$ is defined as $ρ_{\mathrm{sys}}(α):=\tfrac{1}{\mathrm{Vol}(α)}T_{\min}(α)^2$, where $T_{\min}(α)$ and $\mathrm{Vol}(α)$ denote the minimal period of periodic Reeb orbits and the contact volume. The form $α$ is said to be Zoll …

We show that the fundamental 4-form on a quaternionic contact manifold of dimension at least eleven is closed if and only if the torsion endomorphism of the Biquard connection vanishes. This condition characterizes quaternionic contact structures which are locally qc homothetic to 3-Sasakian structures.

We are interested in the class, in the Elie Cartan sense, of left invariant forms on a Lie group. We construct the class of Lie algebras provided with a contact form and classify the frobeniusian Lie algebras up to a contraction. We also study forms which are invariant by a subgroup. We show that the simple group SL(2n…

We give a proof of, for the case of contact structures defined by global contact 1-forms, a Theorem stated by Eliashberg that for any overtwisted contact structure on a closed 3-manifold, its contact homology is 0. A different proof is also outlined in the appendix by Yakov Eliashberg.

We give necessary and sufficient geometric conditions for a distribution (or a Pfaffian system) to be locally equivalent to the canonical contact system on Jn(R,Rm), the space of n-jets of maps from R into Rm. We study the geometry of that class of systems, in particular, the existence of corank one involutive subdistr…

It is shown that the redshift between two Cauchy surfaces in a globally hyperbolic spacetime equals the ratio of the associated contact forms on the space of light rays of that spacetime.

We give simple characterizations of contact 1-forms in terms of Dirac structures. We also relate normal almost contact structures to the theory of Dirac structures.

Study vanishing theorems for CR manifolds using contact forms and Laplacian formulas.

We study left invariant contact forms and left invariant symplectic forms on Lie groups. We give the classification of all symplectic structures on nilpotent Lie algebras up the dimension 6.

A differential 1-form $α$ on a manifold of odd dimension $2n+1$, which satisfies the contact condition $α\wedge (dα)^n \neq 0$ almost everywhere, but which vanishes at a point $O$, i.e. $α(O) = 0$, is called a \textit{singular contact form} at $O$. The aim of this paper is to study local normal forms (formal, analytic …

Study local geometry of bi-contact structures on 3-manifolds.

Researchers create higher-dimensional $\mathcal{I}^\prime$-curvatures and find counterexamples to the Hirachi conjecture.

The paper proves a decomposition theorem for forms on sub-Riemannian contact manifolds.

Given an elliptic action of a compact Lie group $G$ on a co-oriented contact manifold $(M,E)$ one obtains two naturally associated objects: A $G$-transversally elliptic operator $\dirac$, and an equivariant differential form with generalised coefficients $\mathcal{J}(E,X)$ defined in terms of a choice of contact form o…

The study classifies and constructs examples of surfaces with specific curvature and boundary conditions.

New contact structures on spheres and tori with weakly compatible metrics.

For contact manifolds $(M, η)$ a complexification $M^c$ is constructed to which the contact form $η$ extends such that the exterior derivative of the extended form is Kählerian. In the case of a proper action of an extendable Lie group this construction is realized in an equivariant way. In a simultaneous stratificatio…

We consider a contact manifold with a pseudo-Riemannian metric and define a contact vector field intrinsically associated to this pair of structures. We call this new differential invariant the contact Riemannian curl. On a Riemannian manifold, Killing vector fields are those that annihilate the metric; a Killing $1$-f…

We introduce a new geometric structure on differentiable manifolds. A \textit{Contact} \textit{Pair}on a manifold $M$ is a pair $(α,η)$ of Pfaffian forms of constant classes $2k+1$ and $2h+1$ respectively such that $α\wedge dα^{k}\wedgeη\wedge dη^{h}$ is a volume form. Both forms have a characteristic foliation whose …

A taut contact sphere on a 3-manifold is a linear 2-sphere of contact forms, all defining the same volume form. In the present paper we completely determine the moduli of taut contact spheres on compact left-quotients of SU(2) (the only closed manifolds admitting such structures). We also show that the moduli space of …

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…

We study invariant contact p-spheres on principal circle-bundles and solve the corresponding existence problem in dimension 3. Moreover, we show that contact p-spheres can only exist on (4n-1)-dimensional manifolds and we construct examples of contact p-spheres on such manifolds. We also consider relations between taut…

New operators for $Q$-curvature on 5D pseudohermitian manifolds.

We characterize all natural linear operations between spaces of differential forms on contact manifolds. Our main theorem says roughly that such operations are built from some algebraic operators which we introduce and the exterior derivative.