Non-isotopic transverse tori in Engel manifolds

DOI10.4171/RMI/1413arXiv2205.04853MaRDI QIDQ6199680FDOQ6199680

Marc Kegel

Publication date: 28 February 2024

Published in: Revista Matemática Iberoamericana (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In every Engel manifold we construct an infinite family of pairwise non-isotopic transverse tori that are all smoothly isotopic. To distinguish the transverse tori in the family we introduce a homological invariant of transverse tori that is similar to the self-linking number for transverse knots in contact 3-manifolds. Analogous results are presented for Legendrian tori in even contact 4-manifolds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.04853

zbMATH Keywords

Engel manifoldslinking of toritransverse tori

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15) Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25) Higher-dimensional knots and links (57K45) Contact structures in 3 dimensions (57K33)

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