Existence and classification of overtwisted contact structures in all dimensions

DOI10.1007/S11511-016-0134-4zbMATH Open1344.53060arXiv1404.6157OpenAlexW2205062151MaRDI QIDQ265877FDOQ265877

Emmy Murphy, Yakov Eliashberg, Matthew Strom Borman

Publication date: 13 April 2016

Published in: Acta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We establish a parametric extension $h$-principle for overtwisted contact structures on manifolds of all dimensions, which is the direct generalization of the $3$-dimensional result from cite{Eli89}. It implies, in particular, that any closed manifold admits a contact structure in any given homotopy class of almost contact structures.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.6157

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zbMATH Keywords

\(h\)-principlecontact Hamiltoniangenuine contact structurehomotopy classparametric contact structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Almost contact and almost symplectic manifolds (53D15) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

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