Existence and classification of overtwisted contact structures in all dimensions

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

Matthew Strom Borman, Emmy Murphy, 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; \(h\)-principle; contact Hamiltonian; genuine contact structure; parametric contact structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57R17: Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension

53D35: Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds

53D10: Contact manifolds (general theory)

53D15: Almost contact and almost symplectic manifolds