Geometry of the contactomorphism group

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2015.02.008MaRDI QIDQ2348090zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Boramey Chhay, Stephen C. Preston

Publication date 10 June 2015

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.02292

zbMATH Keywords

Camassa-Holmconjugate pointscontactomorphismcurvatureEuler-ArnoldFredholmness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms as manifolds (58D05)

Abstract: In this paper we examine the Riemannian geometry of the group of contactomorphisms of a compact contact manifold. We compute the sectional curvature of $mathcal{D}_{h}eta(M)$ in the sections containing the Reeb field and show that it is non-negative. We also solve explicitly the Jacobi equation along the geodesic corresponding to the flow of the Reeb field and determine the conjugate points. Finally, we show that the Riemannian exponential map is a non-linear Fredholm map of index zero.

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