Contact structure with basic potentials

DOI10.1007/S10773-005-1432-3MaRDI QIDQ2575514zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors F. A. M. Frescura, G. Lubczonok

Publication date 12 December 2005

Published in International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-005-1432-3

zbMATH Keywords

contact structuredynamical systemsPfaffian structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contact systems (37J55) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10)

Review text

A contact structure on a manifold \(M\) of odd dimension \(2n+1\) is a 1-form \(\eta\) such that \(\eta \wedge d\eta ^n\) is a volume form. We recall that, in such a case, there exists a unique vector field \(\xi\), called the characteristic (Reeb) vector field, characterized by \(i_\xi \eta=1\) and \(i_\xi d\eta=0\). In this paper the authors study contact manifolds where \(\omega=d\eta\) admits a basic potential, that is, a 1-form \(\beta\) such that \(\omega =d\beta\), \(i_\xi \beta = {\mathcal L}_\xi \beta =0\). They show that there exists a foliation of codimension 1 on \(M\) given by \(\text{Ker } (\eta -\beta )\) and study its relation with \(\xi\).

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