On a surgery of \(K\)-contact manifolds (Q5952846)

Let \((M,\alpha)\) be a contact manifold, \(\dim M =2n+1\) and \(g\) a \(K\)-contact metric on \(M\). The triple \((M,\alpha,g)\) is called \(K\)-contact manifold of rang \(k\) if the closure of the \(K\)-contact flow \(\{\psi_t,\;t\in \mathbb{R}\}\) in the isometry group of \((M,g)\) is isomorphic to a \(k\)-dimensional torus \(T^k\). It is well known that any \(K\)-contact flow has at least two closed orbits. In this paper, using the properties of the \(T^k\)-action on a \(K\)-contact manifold, the author shows that a surgery along a closed orbit of the \(K\)-contact flow produces a new \(K\)-contact manifold. Let \(O\) be a closed orbit of the \(K\)-contact flow through a point \(x\) in \(M\). The author shows that there exists a \(T^k\)-invariant open neighborhood \(U\) of \(O\) which is \(T^k\)-equivariantly diffeomorphic to \(S^1\times D_{\varepsilon}^{2n}\) with a \(T^k\)-action, where \(D_{\varepsilon}^{2n}=\{z\in \mathbb{C}^n,\;|z|<\varepsilon\}\). It is possible to cut out this set \(S^1\times D_{\varepsilon}^{2n}\) from \(M\) and glue the \(D_b^2\times S^{2n-1}\) along their boundaries. This produces a new manifold \(\widetilde{M}\). The author shows that \(\widetilde{M}\) is a \(K\)-contact manifold of rang \(k\). As an application, the classification of closed simply connected \(5\)-manifolds which admit a \(K\)-contact manifold structure of rang \(3\) is given.