Deformation retraction of the group of strict contactomorphisms of the three-sphere to the unitary group

Authors Dennis DeTurck, Herman Gluck, Leandro A. Lichtenfelz, Mona Merling, Jingye Yang, Yi Wang

Publication date 19 August 2021

Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07) Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10)

Abstract: We prove that the group of strict contactomorphisms of the standard tight contact structure on the three-sphere deformation retracts to its unitary subgroup U(2).

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