Contact manifolds and generalized complex structures

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2004.06.006MaRDI QIDQ556146zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Iglesias-Ponte, Aïssa Wade

Publication date 13 June 2005

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0404519

zbMATH Keywords

contact and Jacobi manifoldCourant bracketDirac structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lie bialgebras; Lie coalgebras (17B62) Poisson algebras (17B63) Lie algebras of vector fields and related (super) algebras (17B66) Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10)

Abstract: 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.

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