Minimal atlases of closed contact manifolds

MaRDI QIDQ3645557zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yuri Chekanov, Otto van Koert, Felix Schlenk

Publication date 18 November 2009

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.3047

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Abstract: We study the minimal number C(M,xi) of contact charts that one needs to cover a closed connected contact manifold (M,xi). Our basic result is C(M,xi) le dim M + 1. We compute C(M,xi) for all closed connected contact 3-manifolds: C (M,xi) = 2 if M = S^3 and xi is tight, 3 if M = S^3 and xi is overtwisted or if M = #_k (S^2 imes S^1), 4 otherwise. We also show that on every sphere S^{2n+1} there exists a contact structure with C(S^{2n+1},xi) ge 3.

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