Invariant contact structures on 7-dimensional nilmanifolds (Q464253)

The author studies 7 dimensional nilmanifolds which admit an invariant contact structure. Based on the classification of all 7 dimensional nilpotent Lie algebras over \(\mathbb{R}\) by \textit{M.-P. Gong} [Classification of nilpotent Lie algebras of dimension 7 (over algebraically closed fields and R). Waterloo, Canada: University of Waterloo (PhD Thesis) (1998)], the author gives a list of seven dimensional nilpotent Lie algebras which admit a contact structure. There are 35 Lie algebras together with 9 one-parameter families of Lie algebras in total. Finally, the author quotes a criterion from \textit{A. I. Mal'tsev} [Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Ser. Mat. 13, 9--32 (1949; Zbl 0034.01701)] to understand the discrete cocompact subgroups of the simply connected Lie groups corresponding to the above list of Lie algebras.