On vector fields having properties of Reeb fields

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Authors Bogusław Hajduk, Rafał Walczak

Publication date 11 November 2013

Published in Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.2411

zbMATH Keywords

contact formReeb fieldgeodesible vector fieldpresymplectic form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Almost contact and almost symplectic manifolds (53D15) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25)

Abstract: We study constructions of vector fields with properties which are characteristic to Reeb vector fields of contact forms. In particular, we prove that all closed oriented odd-dimensional manifold have geodesible vector fields.

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