An Application of Convex Integration to Contact Geometry

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-96-01678-9MaRDI QIDQ4889998zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hansjörg Geiges, Jesús Gonzalo Pérez

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

Reeb vector fieldparallelizationcontact formconformal symplectic structurevolume formhypercontact structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Recommendations

• Applications of convex integration to symplectic and contact geometry
• Contact forms with a common Reeb field
• Pseudoholomorphic curves in symplectizations with applications to the Weinstein conjecture in dimension three
• On vector fields having properties of Reeb fields

Cites work

• Branched Covers and Contact Structures
• Closed oriented 3-manifolds as 3-fold branched coverings of S^3 of special type
• Hypercontact Manifolds
• Partial Differential Relations

Cited in

(12)

• On contact integral Calabi invariant
• Applications of convex integration to symplectic and contact geometry
• Contact forms in geometry and topology
• Volume-preserving fields and Reeb fields on 3-manifolds
• Theory of contact for geometric continuity of parametric curves
• Convex integration and Legendrian approximation of curves
• Morse-Smale characteristic foliations and convexity in contact manifolds
• A survey of Riemannian contact geometry
• Contact geometry and complex surfaces
• Fifteen years of contact circles and contact spheres
• Contact forms with a common Reeb field
• Geometry of integral manifolds of contact distribution

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