A note on toric contact geometry (Q5931237)

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A note on toric contact geometry
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1590739

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    A note on toric contact geometry (English)
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    25 September 2001
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    A contact manifold \(M\) of dimension \(2n+1\) is called a toric contact manifold if there is an effective \((n+1)\)-dimensional torus action on \(M\) that preserves a contact 1-form. If, in addition, the associated Reeb vector field corresponds to an element of the Lie algebra of this torus action, we say that \(M\) is a toric contact manifold of Reeb type. In this paper, the authors prove that every toric contact manifold of Reeb type can be obtained by so-called contact reduction from an odd dimensional sphere.
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    toric contact manifold
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    contact reduction
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    Reeb vector field
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