Contact semi-Riemannian structures in CR geometry: some aspects (Q2306126)

Summary: There is one-to-one correspondence between contact semi-Riemannian structures \((\eta, \xi, \varphi, g)\) and non-degenerate almost CR structures \((\mathcal{H}, \vartheta, J)\). In general, a non-degenerate almost CR structure is not a CR structure, that is, in general the integrability condition for \(\mathcal{H}^{1, 0} : =\{X-iJX, X\in\mathcal{H}\) is not satisfied. In this paper we give a survey on some known results, with the addition of some new results, on the geometry of contact semi-Riemannian manifolds, also in the context of the geometry of Levi non-degenerate almost CR manifolds of hypersurface type, emphasizing similarities and differences with respect to the Riemannian case.