Existence and classification of overtwisted contact structures in all dimensions

DOI10.1007/S11511-016-0134-4MaRDI QIDQ265877zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matthew Strom Borman, Emmy Murphy, Yakov Eliashberg

Publication date 13 April 2016

Published in Acta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

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

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)

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.

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