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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1587295
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1587295 |
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Partially ordered groups and geometry of contact transformations (English)
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29 May 2002
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The authors of the paper study and describe a class of contact manifolds having the property that the universal cover of its group of contact diffeomorphisms carries a natural partial order, and hence they can use some methods of the theory of partially ordered groups. Consequently they uncover a new viewpoint on geometry and dynamics of contactomorphisms. This gives rise to invariants of contactomorphisms which generalize the classical notion of the rotation number.
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partially ordered group
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contact manifold
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contact diffeomorphism
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contactomorphism
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rotation number
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