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Contact manifolds and generalized complex structures

Differential Geometry 2016-08-16 v2 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We give simple characterizations of contact 1-forms in terms of Dirac structures. We also relate normal almost contact structures to the theory of Dirac structures.

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@article{arxiv.math/0404519,
  title  = {Contact manifolds and generalized complex structures},
  author = {David Iglesias-Ponte and Aïssa Wade},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0404519},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

12 pages, typos corrected