Existence and classification of overtwisted contact structures in all dimensions

DOI10.1007/s11511-016-0134-4zbMath1344.53060arXiv1404.6157OpenAlexW2205062151MaRDI QIDQ265877

Emmy Murphy, Matthew Strom Borman, Ya. M. Ehliashberg

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

homotopy class\(h\)-principlecontact Hamiltoniangenuine contact structureparametric contact structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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