Great circle fibrations and contact structures on odd-dimensional spheres

DOI10.1007/S10711-023-00830-XMaRDI QIDQ6077286zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Herman Gluck, Jingye Yang

Publication date 17 October 2023

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.06370

zbMATH Keywords

contact structuresgreat circle fibrations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Other geometric structures on 3-manifolds (57K35)

Abstract: It is known that for every smooth great circle fibration of the 3-sphere, the distribution of tangent 2-planes orthogonal to the fibres is a contact structure, in fact a tight one, but we show here that, beginning with the 5-sphere, there exist smooth great circle fibrations of all odd-dimensional spheres for which the hyperplane distribution orthogonal to the fibres is not a contact structure.

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