scholarly journals Sub-Riemannian Limit of the Differential Form Heat Kernels of Contact Manifolds

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Albin ◽  
Hadrian Quan
Keyword(s):  
Blow Up ◽  
Riemannian Metrics ◽  
Contact Manifold ◽  
Heat Kernels ◽  
Analytic Torsion ◽  
Contact Manifolds ◽  
Spectral Invariants ◽  
Eta Invariant ◽  
Hodge Laplacian ◽  
Contact Distribution

Abstract We study the behavior of the heat kernel of the Hodge Laplacian on a contact manifold endowed with a family of Riemannian metrics that blow-up the directions transverse to the contact distribution. We apply this to analyze the behavior of global spectral invariants such as the $\eta $-invariant and the determinant of the Laplacian. In particular, we prove that contact versions of the relative $\eta $-invariant and the relative analytic torsion are equal to their Riemannian analogues and hence topological.

scholarly journals Critical associated metrics on contact manifolds. II

1986 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 404-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. E. Blair ◽  
A. J. Ledger
Keyword(s):  
Scalar Curvature ◽  
Critical Points ◽  
Compact Manifold ◽  
Einstein Metrics ◽  
Contact Structure ◽  
Riemannian Metrics ◽  
Contact Manifold ◽  
Contact Manifolds ◽  
Contact Metric Structure ◽  
Sasakian Metrics

AbstractThe study of the integral of the scalar curvature, ∫MRdVg, as a function on the set of all Riemannian metrics of the same total volume on a compact manifold is now classical, and the critical points are the Einstein metrics. On a compact contact manifold we consider this and ∫M (R − R* − 4n2) dv, with R* the *-scalar curvature, as functions on the set of metrics associated to the contact structure. For these integrals the critical point conditions then become certain commutativity conditions on the Ricci operator and the fundamental collineation of the contact metric structure. In particular, Sasakian metrics, when they exist, are maxima for the second function.

scholarly journals Contact blow up and cylindrical contact homology of toric contact manifolds of Reeb type

2017 ◽  
Vol 102 (116) ◽  
pp. 61-71
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Marinkovic
Keyword(s):  
Symplectic Manifold ◽  
Blow Up ◽  
Contact Manifold ◽  
Contact Homology ◽  
Contact Manifolds ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
Toric Contact Manifolds

Let (V,?) be a toric contact manifold of Reeb type that is a prequantization of a toric symplectic manifold (M,?). A contact blow up of (V,?) is the prequantization of a symplectic blow up of (M,?). Thus, a contact blow up of (V,?) is a new toric contact manifold of Reeb type. In some special cases we are able to compute the cylindrical contact homology for the contact blowup using only the cylindrical contact homology of the contact manifold we started with.

HAMILTONIAN FIELDS AND ENERGY IN CONTACT MANIFOLDS

2008 ◽  
Vol 05 (01) ◽  
pp. 63-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
GHEORGHE PITIŞ
Keyword(s):  
Vector Fields ◽  
Contact Manifold ◽  
Hamiltonian Vector ◽  
Contact Manifolds ◽  
Hamiltonian Vector Fields ◽  
Contact Distribution

To the contact distribution of a contact manifold we associate Hamiltonian type vector fields, called contact Hamiltonian fields. Their properties are investigated and the existence of such vector fields nowhere tangent to a given submanifold is proved. Time-depending contact Hamiltonian vector fields allow us to define the contact energy whose properties are studied. A class of submanifolds in relation to the study of contact Hamiltonian fields is also analyzed.

scholarly journals Critical associated metrics on contact manifolds

1984 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
David E. Blair
Keyword(s):  
Vector Field ◽  
Critical Points ◽  
Compact Manifold ◽  
Riemannian Metrics ◽  
Contact Manifold ◽  
Characteristic Vector ◽  
Contact Form ◽  
Contact Manifolds ◽  
Characteristic Vector Field ◽  
Regular Contact

AbstractDefining a function on the set of all Riemannian metrics associated to a contact form on a compact manifold by taking the integral of the Ricci curvature in the direction of the characteristic vector field, it is shown that on a compact regular contact manifold the only critical points of this function are the metrics for which the characteristic vector field generates a group of isometrics.

A Variational Characterization of Contact Metric Manifolds With Vanishing Torsion

1992 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. E. Blair ◽  
D. Perrone
Keyword(s):  
Scalar Curvature ◽  
Critical Point ◽  
Integral Functional ◽  
Riemannian Metrics ◽  
Contact Manifold ◽  
Contact Condition ◽  
Contact Metric Manifolds ◽  
Point Condition ◽  
Webster Scalar Curvature ◽  
Group Of Isometries

AbstractChern and Hamilton considered the integral of the Webster scalar curvature as a functional on the set of CR-structures on a compact 3-dimensional contact manifold. Critical points of this functional can be viewed as Riemannian metrics associated to the contact structure for which the characteristic vector field generates a 1-parameter group of isometries i.e. K-contact metrics. Tanno defined a higher dimensional generalization of the Webster scalar curvature, computed the critical point condition of the corresponding integral functional and found that it is not the K-contact condition. In this paper two other generalizations are given and the critical point conditions of the corresponding integral functionals are found. For the second of these, this is the K-contact condition, suggesting that it may be the proper generalization of the Webster scalar curvature.

scholarly journals Ruelle Zeta Function from Field Theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (12) ◽  
pp. 3835-3867
Author(s):  
Charles Hadfield ◽  
Santosh Kandel ◽  
Michele Schiavina
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Partition Function ◽  
Zeta Function ◽  
Lagrangian Submanifolds ◽  
Analytic Torsion ◽  
Contact Manifolds ◽  
Gauge Fixing ◽  
Ruelle Zeta Function

Abstract We propose a field-theoretic interpretation of Ruelle zeta function and show how it can be seen as the partition function for BF theory when an unusual gauge-fixing condition on contact manifolds is imposed. This suggests an alternative rephrasing of a conjecture due to Fried on the equivalence between Ruelle zeta function and analytic torsion, in terms of homotopies of Lagrangian submanifolds.

scholarly journals Open books and exact symplectic cobordisms

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (04) ◽  
pp. 1850026 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirko Klukas
Keyword(s):  
Disjoint Union ◽  
Contact Manifold ◽  
Higher Dimensions ◽  
Fiber Bundles ◽  
Open Book ◽  
Contact Manifolds ◽  
Open Books ◽  
Symplectic Cobordism ◽  
The Given ◽  
Symplectic Cobordisms

Given two open books with equal pages, we show the existence of an exact symplectic cobordism whose negative end equals the disjoint union of the contact manifolds associated to the given open books, and whose positive end induces the contact manifold associated to the open book with the same page and concatenated monodromy. Using similar methods, we show the existence of strong fillings for contact manifolds associated with doubled open books, a certain class of fiber bundles over the circle obtained by performing the binding sum of two open books with equal pages and inverse monodromies. From this we conclude, following an outline by Wendl, that the complement of the binding of an open book cannot contain any local filling obstruction. Given a contact [Formula: see text]-manifold, according to Eliashberg there is a symplectic cobordism to a fibration over the circle with symplectic fibers. We extend this result to higher dimensions recovering a recent result by Dörner–Geiges–Zehmisch. Our cobordisms can also be thought of as the result of the attachment of a generalized symplectic [Formula: see text]-handle.

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