The contact structure induced by a line fibration of R^3 is standard

DOI10.1112/BLMS.12403MaRDI QIDQ4996898zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tilman Becker, Hansjörg Geiges

Publication date 2 July 2021

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.03169

zbMATH Keywords

contact structure on \(\mathbb{R}^3\)line fibrationstandard contact structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35)

Abstract: Building on the work of and answering a question by Michael Harrison, we show that any contact structure on Euclidean 3-space induced by a line fibration is diffeomorphic to the standard contact structure.

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