Quantitative Darboux theorems in contact geometry

DOI10.1090/TRAN/6821MaRDI QIDQ2821675zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Rafal Komendarczyk, Patrick Massot, John B. Etnyre

Publication date 22 September 2016

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.1218

zbMATH Keywords

contact geometrycontact structurecontact topologyDarboux ballDarboux theoremRiemannian geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35)

Abstract: This paper begins the study of relations between Riemannian geometry and contact topology in any dimension and continues this study in dimension 3. Specifically we provide a lower bound for the radius of a geodesic ball in a contact manifold that can be embedded in the standard contact structure on Euclidean space, that is on the size of a Darboux ball. The bound is established with respect to a Riemannian metric compatible with an associated contact form. In dimension three, it further leads us to an estimate of the size for a standard neighborhood of a closed Reeb orbit. The main tools are classical comparison theorems in Riemannian geometry. In the same context, we also use holomorphic curves techniques to provide a lower bound for the radius of a PS-tight ball.

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