scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1133265

MaRDI QIDQ4382019zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors David E. Blair

Publication date 25 March 1998

zbMATH Keywords

associated metricscomplex contact manifoldscomplex Heisenberg groupGH-sectional curvatureintegral functionalsLegendre curvesnormalityprojective space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15)

Review text

This paper contains the three lectures given by the author at the Workshop on Differential Geometry and Topology, June 1996, Palermo, Sicily. During this mini-course he made a study of the geometry of complex contact manifolds and he gave the most important result on that area. The topics of these lectures are presented by the author in his introduction as follows: ``In the first lecture we introduce complex contact manifolds, associated metrics and a study of integral functionals on the set of associated metrics. In the second lecture we will discuss the complex Heisenberg group as an example of a complex contact manifold, introduce a notion of normality in complex contact geometry, present a theory of GH-sectional curvature for normal complex contact metric manifolds and a curvature result in the non-normal case. In the third lecture we will discuss holomorphic Legendre curves in the complex Heisenberg group and odd-dimensional complex projective space. ``To these notes an appendix is added reviewing some of the Riemannian theory of real contact manifolds, especially those results which motivate the results presented in the complex case in these lectures. We note, however, that the results in the complex case are not entirely analogous to those in the real case which makes the subject more interesting and indicates that it contains some significant mathematics. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0884.00043].

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