Noncommutative integrability and action-angle variables in contact geometry (Q1940187): Difference between revisions

In the first part of the paper, foliations on contact manifolds \((M,H)\) are considered. The foliation \(F\) is considered as pre-isotropic if it is transversal to \(H\) and \(G= F\cap H\) is an isotropic subbundle of \(H\). If \(F\) has compact leaves, they are tori. For a given complete pre-isotropic structure \((M,H,\Upsilon)\), locally, there always exists an invariant contact form \(\alpha\) such that \(F\) is \(\alpha\)-complete. It is proved that in a neighborhood of any invariant torus, there exist canonical generalized contact action-angle coordinates and the contact equation \(\dot x= X\), with \(X\) a contact vector field, is a translation in angle variables. In the last section, is considered a complete pre-isotropic contact structure \((M,\alpha,\Upsilon)\) of Reeb type, i.e., \(H\) is defined by a global \(\upsilon\)-invariant form \(\alpha\) and the Reeb vector field of \(\alpha\) is \(\pi\)-vertical. Note that \((M,H,\upsilon)\) can be a complete pre-isotropic structure with a global \(\upsilon\)-invariant contact form \(\alpha\), which is not of Reeb type. The invariant foliation \(F\) of a complete pre-isotropic contact structure \((M,\alpha,\upsilon)\) of the Reeb type is \(\alpha\)-complete. The transition functions between the contact action-angle coordinates and the statement of the existence of global action-angle variables in the case when \(\pi: M\to W\) is a trivial principal \(\mathbb T^{r+1}\)-bundle are given.