On vector fields having properties of Reeb fields

zbMATH Open1317.53113arXiv1107.2411MaRDI QIDQ378474FDOQ378474

Authors: Bogusław Hajduk, Rafał Walczak 

Publication date: 11 November 2013

Published in: Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study constructions of vector fields with properties which are characteristic to Reeb vector fields of contact forms. In particular, we prove that all closed oriented odd-dimensional manifold have geodesible vector fields.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.2411

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zbMATH Keywords

contact formReeb fieldgeodesible vector fieldpresymplectic form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Almost contact and almost symplectic manifolds (53D15) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25)

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