\(L_\infty\)-algebras from multicontact geometry (Q490692)

The author defines higher-codimensional versions of contact structures on manifolds (called multicontact structures) as maximally non-integrable distributions. More generally, he defines higher-codimensional versions of pre-contact structures (called pre-multicontact structures) as distributions on manifolds whose characteristic symmetries span a constant-dimensional distribution. Every distribution is almost everywhere, locally, a pre-multicontact structure. After showing that the standard symplectization of contact manifolds generalizes naturally to a (pre-)multisymplectization of (pre-)multicontact manifolds, he associates a canonical \(L_\infty\)-algebra to any (pre-)multicontact structure. Such \(L_\infty\)-algebra is a multicontact version of the Jacobi bracket on a contact manifold. Finally, he describes in local coordinates the \(L_\infty\)-algebra associated to the Cartan distribution on jet spaces.