Abstract: Survey on contact submanifolds.
problem Understanding contact submanifolds.
method None specified, survey of existing knowledge.
result Discussion of various contact submanifolds.
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Discusses the tight versus overtwisted dichotomy in 3D contact geometry.
problem Understanding the tight versus overtwisted dichotomy in 3D contact geometry.
method Reviews Eliashberg's seminal work and contributions to the theory.
result Explains the genesis and importance of the tight versus overtwisted dichotomy.
Spinors help study unique five-dimensional contact structures.
problem Understanding unique five-dimensional contact structures.
method Using classical two-component spinors, define directional derivatives in contact directions.
result Calculate invariant torsion of contact structure.
Infinite-dimensional contact geometry explored.
problem Generalizing contact geometry to infinite dimensions.
method Generalization of cosymplectic, contact, and cocontact manifolds to infinite dimensions.
result Model examples of time-dependent and dissipative Hamiltonian systems calculated.
Study contact geometry of symplectic divisors, invariant under specific transformations.
problem Understanding contact structures on symplectic divisors and their boundaries.
method Invariant analysis of contact structures under toric and interior blow-ups/blow-downs, open book decomposition construction.
result Contact structure on divisor boundaries is invariant under specified transformations.
A new method simplifies contact Hamiltonian mechanics.
problem Traditional contact Hamiltonian mechanics is complex.
method Introduces sections of line bundles over contact manifolds.
result Reduces contact Hamiltonian formalism to symplectic.
Develops k-contact geometry theory for field theories.
problem Analyse field theories using k-contact geometry.
method Distributions maximally non-integrable with k commuting Lie symmetries.
result Established k-contact distributions and their relationships.
Characterizes Anosov flows in 3D using symplectic and contact geometry.
problem Understanding Anosov flows in 3D.
method Purely contact and symplectic geometric methods.
result Characterization of Anosov flows based on Reeb flows and underlying (bi)-contact structures.
A dictionary connects symplectic to contact geometry, with applications to complex and G-structures.
problem Formalizing the relationship between symplectic and contact geometry.
method Developing a Symplectic-to-Contact Dictionary.
result The dictionary can be applied to complex and G-structures, revealing new geometries.
Study new -contact distributions and Lie systems.
problem Characterizing and understanding -contact distributions.
method Analyzing Goursat distributions and Lie systems.
result Characterized new types of -contact distributions.
Study explores weak generalized K-contact structures in contact metric spaces.
problem Exploring weak generalized K-contact structures in contact metric spaces.
method Introducing a weak condition and proving existence of K-contact and -structures.
result Existence of K-contact and -structures under certain conditions on the Boeckx invariant.
Local flatness theorem for paraquaternionic contact structures.
problem Local flatness of paraquaternionic contact manifolds.
method Defined paraquaternionic contact conformal curvature tensor and showed local flatness condition.
result Paraquaternionic contact conformal curvature vanishing implies local flatness.
In this paper the notion of the intrinsic geometry of an almost contact metric manifold is introduced. Description of some classes of spaces with almost contact metric structures in terms of the intrinsic geometry is given. A new type of almost contact metric spaces, more precisely, Hermitian almost contact metric spac…
Defines generalized Sasakian structures in contact geometry.
problem Understanding k-contact manifolds and CR manifolds.
method Introduced generalized Sasakian structures and proved their equivalence to Sasakian structures.
result k-contact manifolds are generalized Sasakian if and only if they are classically Sasakian.
Established a generalized Boothby-Wang theorem in contact geometry.
problem Generalized contact structures and their properties.
method Courant reduction methods and construction of principal bundles.
result Induced symplectic foliation on leaf space under certain conditions.
These notes are an expanded version of an introductory lecture on contact geometry given at the 2001 Georgia Topology Conference. They are intended to present some of the "topological" aspects of three dimensional contact geometry.
On décrit ici des relations entre la géométrie globale des variétés de contact closes et celle de certaines variétés symplectiques, à savoir les variétés de Stein compactes. L'origine de ces relations est l'existence de livres ouverts adaptés aux structures de contact. We discuss relations between the global geometry o…
This article sketches various ideas in contact geometry that have become useful in low-dimensional topology. Specifically we (1) outline the proof of Eliashberg and Thurston's results concerning perturbations of foliatoins into contact structures, (2) discuss Eliashberg and Weinstein's symplectic handle attachments, an…
Lie contact structures generalize the classical Lie sphere geometry of oriented hyperspheres in the standard sphere. They can be equivalently described as parabolic geometries corresponding to the contact grading of orthogonal real Lie algebra. It follows the underlying geometric structure can be interpreted in several…
In this paper, the notion of an almost contact Kählerian structure is introduced. The interior geometry of almost contact Kählerian spaces is investigated. On the zero-curvature distribution of an almost contact metric structure, as on the total space of a vector bundle, an almost contact Kählerian structure is obtaine…
This paper begins the study of relations between Riemannian geometry and global properties of contact structures on 3-manifolds. In particular we prove an analog of the sphere theorem from Riemannian geometry in the setting of contact geometry. Specifically, if a given three dimensional contact manifold (M,ξ) admits a …
Characterizes Anosov flows via contact geometry.
problem Understanding Anosov 3-flows through contact geometry.
method Investigates interactions with Reeb dynamics and proves a technical theorem.
result Space of adapted geometries homotopy equivalent to Anosov flows.
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 …
Complex contact manifolds, varieties of minimal rational tangents, and exterior differential systemsmath.AG
Complex contact manifolds arise naturally in differential geometry, algebraic geometry and exterior differential systems. Their classification would answer an important question about holonomy groups. The geometry of such manifold is governed by the contact lines contained in . These are related to the notion of…
New surgery method preserves Anosov flow properties using bi-contact geometry.
problem Defining a new type of surgery on Anosov flows.
method Bi-contact geometry and Reeb dynamics.
result Necessary and sufficient condition for generating contact Anosov flows.
Study on null submanifolds in indefinite complex contact geometry.
problem Geometry of null submanifolds in indefinite complex contact manifolds.
method Analysis of quaternion null submanifolds and distributions on screen submanifolds.
result Quaternion null submanifolds are always totally geodesic.
Study new warped product metric in contact geometry.
problem Define a new type warped product metric.
method Introduced a new warped product metric on product manifolds.
result Showed existence of -Sasakian structure.
Lecture notes introduce contact complete integrability for odd-dimensional manifolds.
problem Integrability on odd-dimensional manifolds using contact geometry.
method Introduce contact geometry concepts, discuss contact Hamiltonian vector field, Jacobi bracket, and contact complete integrability.
result Two different notions of contact complete integrability coincide.
These notes are intended to be an introduction to the use of approximately holomorphic techniques in almost contact and contact geometry. We develop the setup of the approximately holomorphic geometry. Once done, we sketch the existence of the two main geometric decompositions available for an almost contact or contact…
These are lecture notes on cut-and-paste methods in 3-dimensional contact geometry.
Geometry of third-order ODEsmath.DG
We address the problem of local geometry of third order ODEs modulo contact, point and fibre-preserving transformations of variables. Several new and already known geometries are described in a uniform manner by the Cartan method of equivalence. This includes conformal, Weyl and metric geometries in three and six dimen…
Abstract: Study of surface transitions and IDE inflections via contact geometry.
problem Understanding transitions on surfaces and implicit differential equations.
method Contact geometry and Legendrian properties of projections.
result List of unavoidable local phenomena on surfaces and IDE solutions.
Contact Path Geometriesmath.DG
Contact path geometries are curved geometric structures on a contact manifold comprising smooth families of paths modeled on the family of all isotropic lines in the projectivization of a symplectic vector space. Locally such a structure is equivalent to the graphs in the space of independent and depedent variables of …
The paper extends the functional geometry of the visual cortex to more complex architectures using contactization and symplectization.
problem Understanding the functional architecture of the visual cortex.
method Contactization and symplectization processes to extend the dimension of the space.
result Extension of the functional geometry of the visual cortex to more complex architectures.
New systolic inequality for 3D contact forms on Seifert bundles.
problem Bounding the shortest Reeb orbit period in terms of contact volume.
method Proved a general systolic inequality for S1-invariant contact forms on Seifert bundles.
result Validated systolic inequality on Seifert bundles with non-zero Euler number.
A rigid submanifold result in contact geometry.
problem Rigidity of coisotropic submanifolds in contact geometry.
method Study coisotropic deformations and characteristic foliations.
result Compact regular coisotropic submanifolds are rigid among nearby ones.
We introduce a notion of the noncommutative integrability within a framework of contact geometry.
Study canonical curves and Kropina metrics in Lagrangian contact geometry.
problem Characterize canonical curves and their relationship to Lagrangian contact structures.
method Construct Fefferman-type spaces, analyze chains and null-chains, use Kropina metrics, apply Fermat principle.
result Chains and null-chains in integrable Lagrangian contact structures are geodesics of Kropina metrics.
Study local geometry of bi-contact structures on 3-manifolds.
problem Understanding the local geometry of bi-contact structures.
method Investigating maps preserving each contact structure and discovering differential invariants.
result Discovering contact ellipses and hyperbolas, and relating to symplectic structures.
The study explores autonomous systems and their connections to contact geometry and Frobenius manifolds.
problem Understanding the connections between autonomous systems and geometric structures.
method Investigation of the Darboux-Halphen-Ramanujan system, contact geometry, and Frobenius manifolds.
result Highlighting the role of contact geometry in autonomous systems.
Survey of recent results in weak almost contact structures.
problem New geometric structures replacing complex structure in contact manifolds.
method Survey of recent findings in weak almost contact manifolds.
result Recent results on geodesic and Killing fields, rigidity and splitting theorems, etc.
On the Geometry of Chainsmath.DG
The chains studied in this paper generalize Chern-Moser chains for CR structures. They form a distinguished family of one dimensional submanifolds in manifolds endowed with a parabolic contact structure. Both the parabolic contact structure and the system of chains can be equivalently encoded as Cartan geometries (of d…
We solve the problem posed by Boyer and Galicki about the existence of K-contact simply connected manifolds with no Sasakian structure. Although the result lies in the framework of metric contact geometry, our methods come from contact and symplectic geometry and are based on the method of fat bundles developed by Ster…
A tensor invariant is defined on a quaternionic contact manifold in terms of the curvature and torsion of the Biquard connection involving derivatives up to third order of the contact form. This tensor, called quaternionic contact conformal curvature, is similar to the Weyl conformal curvature in Riemannian geometry an…
Study on generalized quasi-Einstein structures in contact geometry.
problem Characterizing and understanding generalized quasi-Einstein structures in contact geometry.
method Investigation of properties, existence, and characterizations of generalized quasi-Einstein normal metric contact pair manifolds.
result Normal metric contact pair manifolds with generalized quasi-constant curvature are generalized quasi-Einstein manifolds.
Study on null hypersurfaces in complex contact manifolds.
problem Characterizing null hypersurfaces in indefinite complex contact manifolds.
method Proved classification results for various null hypersurfaces and characterized the ambient space.
result The ambient complex contact manifold must have constant -sectional curvature of for certain null hypersurfaces.
Contact geometrymath.SG
This is an introductory text on the more topological aspects of contact geometry, written for the Handbook of Differential Geometry vol. 2. After discussing (and proving) some of the fundamental results of contact topology (neighbourhood theorems, isotopy extension theorems, approximation theorems), I move on to a deta…
The paper proves new curvature estimates in quaternionic contact geometry.
problem Estimating the curvature of compact qc manifolds.
method Establishing quaternionic contact versions of the Almost Schur Lemma.
result Curvature is a constant in terms of specific norms and components.