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Strict contactomorphisms are scarce

Symplectic Geometry 2025-05-13 v2

Abstract

The notion of non-projectible contact forms on a given compact manifold MM is introduced by the first-named author in [Ohb], the set of which he also shows is a residual subset of the set of (coorientable) contact forms, both in the case with a fixed contact structure and in the case without it. In this paper, we prove that for any non-projectible contact form λ\lambda the set, denoted by Contst(M,λ)\text{\rm Cont}^{\text{\rm st}}(M,\lambda), consisting of strict contactomorphisms of λ\lambda is a a countable disjoint union of real lines R\mathbb R, one for each connected component.

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@article{arxiv.2504.16458,
  title  = {Strict contactomorphisms are scarce},
  author = {Yong-Geun Oh and Yasha Savelyev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.16458},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

33 pages, comments welcome!, v2) The case with fixed contact structure added in the main theorem

R2 v1 2026-06-28T23:08:08.912Z