Two constructions of virtually contact structures

DOI10.4310/JSG.2018.V16.N2.A5MaRDI QIDQ722390zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Kevin Wiegand, Kai Zehmisch

Publication date 23 July 2018

Published in The Journal of Symplectic Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.06201

zbMATH Keywords

Weinstein conjecturecovering connected sumnon-trivial virtually contact structuresomewhere contact virtually contact structurevirtually contact manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Periodic orbits of vector fields and flows (37C27) Attractors and repellers of smooth dynamical systems and their topological structure (37C70) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Abstract: Motivated by recent developments in proving the Weinstein conjecture we introduce the notion of covering contact connected sum for virtually contact manifolds and construct virtually contact structures on boundaries of subcritical handle bodies.

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