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We study a class of simply connected manifolds in all odd dimensions greater than 3 that exhibit an infinite number of toric contact structures of Reeb type that are inequivalent as contact structures. We compute the cohomology ring of our…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-16 Charles P. Boyer , Christina W. Tønnesen-Friedman

We prove that contact homeomorphisms preserve characteristic foliations on surfaces in contact $3$-manifolds. More precisely, since the characteristic foliation is a singular $1$-dimensional foliation, we show that singular points are…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Baptiste Serraille , Maksim Stokić

We study the global topology of the space $\mathcal L$ of loops of contactomorphisms of a non-orderable closed contact manifold $(M^{2n+1}, \alpha)$. We filter $\mathcal L$ by a quantitative measure of the ``positivity'' of the loops and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Luis Hernández-Corbato , Javier Martínez-Aguinaga

We describe of the topology of the geometric quotients of 2n dimensional compact connected symplectic manifolds with n-1 dimensional torus actions. When the isotropy weights at each fixed point are in general position, the quotient is…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-16 Yael Karshon , Susan Tolman

We introduce the classes of holomorphic $p$-contact manifolds and holomorphic $s$-symplectic manifolds that generalise the classical holomorphic contact and holomorphic symplectic structures. After observing their basic properties and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Hisashi Kasuya , Dan Popovici , Luis Ugarte

We show that a closed weakly-monotone symplectic manifold of dimension $2n$ which has minimal Chern number greater than or equal to $n+1$ and admits a Hamiltonian toric pseudo-rotation is necessarily monotone and its quantum homology is…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Mita Banik

In this note we show that a closed oriented contact manifold is obtained from the standard contact sphere of the same dimension by contact surgeries on isotropic and coisotropic spheres. In addition, we observe that all closed oriented…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-15 James Conway , John B. Etnyre

Let $Q$ be a compact, connected $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold, and assume that the geodesic flow is toric integrable. If $n \neq 3$ is odd, or if $\pi_1(Q)$ is infinite, we show that the cosphere bundle of $Q$ is equivariantly…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Christopher R. Lee , Susan Tolman

It is known that every contact form on a closed three-manifold has at least two simple Reeb orbits, and a generic contact form has infinitely many. We show that if there are exactly two simple Reeb orbits, then the contact form is…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner , Umberto Hryniewicz , Michael Hutchings , Hui Liu

Let S be a compact surface - or the interior of a compact surface - and let V be the manifold of cooriented contact elements of S equiped with its canonical contact structure. A diffeomorphism of V that preserves the contact structure and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Emmanuel Giroux

Let (m,b) a pair of natural numbers. For m even (resp. m odd and b greater than or equal to 2) we show that if there is an m-dimensional non-formal compact oriented manifold whose first Betti number equals b, there is also a symplectic…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Christoph Bock

Let $M$ be a closed (compact with no boundary) spherical $CR$ manifold of dimension $2n+1$. Let $\widetilde{M}$ be the universal covering of $M.$ Let $% \Phi $ denote a $CR$ developing map {equation*} \Phi :\widetilde{M}\rightarrow S^{2n+1}…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-08 Jih-Hsin Cheng , Hung-Lin Chiu , Paul Yang

Consider a holomorphic contact manifold. Holomorphic discs tangent to the contact planes define a pseudometric on the manifold. This pseudometric integrates to a pseudodistance. When the pseudodistance is a distance, we call the contact…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Filippo Bracci , Benjamin McKay , Riccardo Ugolini

A K-contact manifold is a smooth manifold M with a contact form whose Reeb flow preserves a Riemannian metric on M. Main examples are Sasakian manifolds. Our results in this paper are four results i), ii), iii) and iv) below obtained by the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-07-02 Hiraku Nozawa

Every closed orientable surface S has the following property: any two connected covers of S of the same degree are homeomorphic (as spaces). In this, paper we give a complete classification of compact 3-manifolds with empty or toroidal…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Stefan Friedl , JungHwan Park , Bram Petri , Jean Raimbault , Arunima Ray

Contact homology for Legendrian submanifolds in standard contact $(2n+1)$-space is rigorously defined using moduli spaces of holomorphic disks with Lagrangian boundary conditions in complex $n$-space. It provides new invariants of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tobias Ekholm , John Etnyre , Michael G. Sullivan

We show that positive $S^1$-equivariant symplectic homology is a contact invariant for a subclass of contact manifolds which are boundaries of Liouville domains. In nice cases, when the set of Conley-Zehnder indices of all good periodic…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Jean Gutt

We will prove a Moser-type theorem for self-dual harmonic 2-forms on closed 4-manifolds, and use it to classify local forms on neighborhoods of singular circles on which the 2-form vanishes. Removing neighborhoods of the circles, we obtain…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Ko Honda

In this paper we construct complex contact structures on $\mathbb{C}^{2n+1}$ for any $n\ge 1$ with the property that every holomorphic Legendrian map $\mathbb{C}\to \mathbb{C}^{2n+1}$ is constant. In particular, these contact structures are…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2018-05-11 Franc Forstneric

We determine the homotopy type of isotropic torus complements in closed contact manifolds in terms of Reeb dynamics of special contact forms. For that we utilize holomorphic curve techniques known from symplectic field theory as…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-28 Kilian Barth , Jay Schneider , Kai Zehmisch