Contact geometry
Symplectic Geometry
2014-11-18 v2 Geometric Topology
Abstract
This is an introductory text on the more topological aspects of contact geometry, written for the Handbook of Differential Geometry vol. 2. After discussing (and proving) some of the fundamental results of contact topology (neighbourhood theorems, isotopy extension theorems, approximation theorems), I move on to a detailed exposition of the original proof of the Lutz-Martinet theorem. The text ends with a guide to the literature.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0307242,
title = {Contact geometry},
author = {Hansjörg Geiges},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0307242},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
86 pages, 19 figures; sign corrected in proof of Prop. 3.15