A classifying space for the contact pseudogroup

DOI10.1112/S0025579300009438MaRDI QIDQ4189770zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Charles B. Thomas

Publication date 1979

Published in Mathematika (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Classifying SpaceLocal DiffeomorphismsCodimension 1 FoliationsContact PseudogroupNon-Vanishing Godbillon-Vey Class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30) Classifying spaces for foliations; Gelfand-Fuks cohomology (57R32)

Cites work

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3086604 (Why is no real title available?)
• Cohomology of Hamiltonian and related formal vector field Lie algebras
• On the de Rham theory of certain classifying spaces
• Seifert n-manifolds
• Some global properties of contact structures
• \(O(n)\)-manifolds, exotic spheres, and singularities

Cited in

(2)

• On Nontrivial Characteristic Classes of Contact Foliations
• Applications of convex integration to symplectic and contact geometry

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