Lefschetz type pencils on contact manifolds. (Q1811395)

The author defines the concept of Lefschetz contact pencil and proves the following nice result. Given a contact closed manifold \((C,D)\) (respectively exact) and \(\alpha\in H_{2n-1}(C, \mathbb R)\) which is a reduction of an integer class, there exists a contact pencil on \(C\) (respectively oriented) whose fibers are contact submanifolds homologous to \(\alpha\). This result is analgous to the result of \textit{S. K. Donaldson} [J. Differ. Geom. 53, No. 2, 205--236 (1999; Zbl 1040.53094)]. The main tool is the generalization of the local transversality theorem proved in the work of Donaldson. The results of the author are related to the results on existence of a convex structure in contact manifolds of E.~Giroux and J.~P.~Mohsen. The results of the paper help to understand the possibility of finding isotopic constructions for contact manifolds constructed in \textit{A.~Ibort, D.~Martinez-Torres, F.~Presas} [J. Differ. Geom. 56, No. 2, 235--283 (2000; Zbl 1034.53088)] where the author partially translates Donaldson's idea of working with \(J\)-holomorphic sections to the contact case, see \textit{S. K. Donaldson} [J. Differ. Geom. 44, No. 4, 666--705 (1996; Zbl 0883.53032)]. In the end of the paper the author discusses applications of contact pencils to Gromov's ideas of contact blow-ups.