Contact structures with singularities: from local to global

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2023.104957MaRDI QIDQ6137718zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Eva Miranda, Cédric Oms

Publication date 4 September 2023

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.05638

zbMATH Keywords

\(b\)-symplectic manifoldscontact structuresJacobi manifoldssingularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Abstract: In this article we introduce and analyze in detail singular contact structures, with an emphasis on $b^m$-contact structures, which are tangent to a given smooth hypersurface $Z$ and satisfy certain transversality conditions. These singular contact structures are determined by the kernel of non-smooth differential forms, called $b^m$-contact forms, having an associated critical hypersurface $Z$. We provide several constructions, prove local normal forms, and study the induced structure on the critical hypersurface. The topology of manifolds endowed with such singular contact forms are related to smooth contact structures via desingularization. The problem of existence of $b^m$-contact structures on a given manifold is also tackled in this paper. We prove that a connected component of a convex hypersurface of a contact manifold can be realized as a connected component of the critical set of a $b^m$-contact structure. In particular, given an almost contact manifold $M$ with a hypersurface $Z$, this yields the existence of a $b^{2k}$-contact structure on $M$ realizing $Z$ as a critical set. As a consequence of the desingularization techniques in [GMW], we prove the existence of folded contact forms on any almost contact manifold.

Review text

Contact manifolds are well studied, being the odd dimensional counterpart of symplectic manifolds. In this connection between symplectic and contact manifolds, it seems that singular forms have not been sufficiently studied. In recent years, a class of singular symplectic forms called \(b^m\)-symplectic forms has been investigated. In this paper, the authors take a first step towards studying the geometry and local topology of the odd-sized counterpart of these manifolds, called \(b^m\)-contact manifolds. These singular contact structures are determined by the kernel of non-smooth differential forms, called \(b^m\)-contact forms, which have an associated critical hypersurface \(Z\). The topology of the manifolds equipped with such singular contact forms is related to the smooth contact structures by desingularization. It is proved that a connected component of a convex hypersurface of a contact manifold can be realized as a connected component of the critical set of a \(b^m\)-contact structure. Also, the topology of the \(b^m\)-contact manifolds, depending on the parity of \(m\), is related to that of contact manifolds or so-called folded contact manifolds. The paper ends with some open problems.

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