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2002 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Integral Submanifolds and Contact Transformations

verfasst von : David E. Blair

Erschienen in: Riemannian Geometry of Contact and Symplectic Manifolds

Verlag: Birkhäuser Boston

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Let M2n+1 be a contact manifold with contact form η. We have seen that η = 0 defines a 2n-dimensional subbundle D called the contact distribution or subbundle and that since η ∧ (dη)n ≠ 0, D is non-integrable. This nonintegrability was easily visualized, for example, in Example 3.2.6.

Metadaten
Titel
Integral Submanifolds and Contact Transformations
verfasst von
David E. Blair
Copyright-Jahr
2002
Verlag
Birkhäuser Boston
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3604-5_5

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