An Application of Convex Integration to Contact Geometry

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-96-01678-9zbMath0865.53022OpenAlexW1552719004MaRDI QIDQ4889998

Jesús Gonzalo Pérez, Hansjörg Geiges

Publication date: 10 July 1997

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/s0002-9947-96-01678-9

zbMATH Keywords

contact formReeb vector fieldparallelizationconformal symplectic structurevolume formhypercontact structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15)

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Contact geometry and complex surfaces ⋮ Fifteen years of contact circles and contact spheres ⋮ A survey of Riemannian contact geometry ⋮ Contact Forms in Geometry and Topology ⋮ Volume-preserving fields and Reeb fields on 3-manifolds

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• Hypercontact Manifolds