Great circle fibrations and contact structures on odd-dimensional spheres

DOI10.1007/S10711-023-00830-XzbMATH Open1525.53036arXiv1901.06370OpenAlexW2909193352MaRDI QIDQ6077286FDOQ6077286

Authors: Herman Gluck, Jingye Yang 

Publication date: 17 October 2023

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

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.

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

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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)

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