scholarly journals Geometric Decompositions of Almost Contact Manifolds

2014 ◽  
pp. 137-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Presas
Keyword(s):  
Contact Manifolds

scholarly journals Prolongation on contact manifolds

2011 ◽  
Vol 60 (5) ◽  
pp. 1425-1486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Eastwood ◽  
A. Rod Gover
Keyword(s):  
Contact Manifolds

On the non-regularity of tangent sphere bundles

1978 ◽  
Vol 82 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 13-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
David E. Blair
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Large Class ◽  
Constant Curvature ◽  
Positive Constant ◽  
Contact Structure ◽  
Compact Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Contact Structures ◽  
Sphere Bundle ◽  
Contact Manifolds ◽  
Tangent Sphere

SynopsisClassically the tangent sphere bundles have formed a large class of contact manifolds; their contact structures are not in general regular, however. Specifically we prove that the natural contact structure on the tangent sphere bundle of a compact Riemannian manifold of non-positive constant curvature is not regular.

scholarly journals Cartan structures on contact manifolds

1981 ◽  
Vol 266 (2) ◽  
pp. 583-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Burdet ◽  
M. Perrin
Keyword(s):  
Contact Manifolds

scholarly journals Legendrian contact homology and topological entropy

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
pp. 53-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo R. R. Alves
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Topological Entropy ◽  
Infinite Family ◽  
Contact Structures ◽  
Legendrian Knots ◽  
Contact Homology ◽  
Contact Manifolds ◽  
3 Dimensional ◽  
Reeb Flows ◽  
Legendrian Contact Homology

In this paper we study the growth rate of a version of Legendrian contact homology, which we call strip Legendrian contact homology, in 3-dimensional contact manifolds and its relation to the topological entropy of Reeb flows. We show that: if for a pair of Legendrian knots in a contact 3-manifold [Formula: see text] the strip Legendrian contact homology is defined and has exponential homotopical growth with respect to the action, then every Reeb flow on [Formula: see text] has positive topological entropy. This has the following dynamical consequence: for all Reeb flows (even degenerate ones) on [Formula: see text] the number of hyperbolic periodic orbits grows exponentially with respect to the period. We show that for an infinite family of 3-manifolds, infinitely many different contact structures exist that possess a pair of Legendrian knots for which the strip Legendrian contact homology has exponential growth rate.

scholarly journals Hypersurfaces in almost contact manifolds

1969 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 354-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. E. Blair ◽  
G. D. Ludden
Keyword(s):  
Contact Manifolds

scholarly journals Affine varieties, singularities and the growth rate of wrapped Floer cohomology

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (03) ◽  
pp. 493-530
Author(s):  
Mark McLean
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Cotangent Bundle ◽  
Betti Numbers ◽  
Symplectic Manifolds ◽  
Isolated Singularity ◽  
Contact Manifolds ◽  
Floer Cohomology ◽  
Complex Singularities ◽  
Smooth Affine ◽  
Simply Connected

In this paper, we give partial answers to the following questions: Which contact manifolds are contactomorphic to links of isolated complex singularities? Which symplectic manifolds are symplectomorphic to smooth affine varieties? The invariant that we will use to distinguish such manifolds is called the growth rate of wrapped Floer cohomology. Using this invariant we show that if [Formula: see text] is a simply connected manifold whose unit cotangent bundle is contactomorphic to the link of an isolated singularity or whose cotangent bundle is symplectomorphic to a smooth affine variety then M must be rationally elliptic and so it must have certain bounds on its Betti numbers.

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