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We consider two categories related to symplectic manifolds: 1. Objects are symplectic manifolds and morphisms are symplectic embeddings. 2. Objects are symplectic manifolds endowed with compatible almost complex structure and morphisms are…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-26 Vardan Oganesyan

The purpose of this paper is to give a survey of the various versions of Floer homology for manifolds with contact type boundary that have so far appeared in the literature. Under the name of ``Symplectic homology'' or ``Floer homology for…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexandru Oancea

The contact invariant is an element in the monopole Floer homology groups of an oriented closed three manifold canonically associated to a given contact structure. A non-vanishing contact invariant implies that the original contact…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-07-29 Mariano Echeverria

Let Q be a Riemannian manifold such that the Betti numbers of its free loop space with respect to some coefficient field are unbounded. We show that every contact form on its unit contangent bundle supporting the natural contact structure…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-06-20 Mark McLean

We construct the first example of a 5-dimensional simply connected compact manifold that admits a K-contact structure but does not admit a semi-regular Sasakian structure. For this, we need two ingredients: (a) to construct a suitable…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-02 Alejandro Cañas , Vicente Muñoz , Juan Rojo , Antonio Viruel

We consider manifolds endowed with a contact pair structure. To such a structure are naturally associated two almost complex structures. If they are both integrable, we call the structure a normal contact pair. We generalize the Morimoto's…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-20 G. Bande , A. Hadjar

We demonstrate an isomorphism between the homology of the strand algebra of bordered Floer homology, and the category algebra of the contact category introduced by Honda. This isomorphism provides a direct correspondence between various…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-17 Daniel V. Mathews

We classify the normal CR structures on $S^3$ and their automorphism groups. Together with [3], this closes the classification of normal CR structures on contact 3-manifolds. We give a criterion to compare 2 normal CR structures, and we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Florin Alexandru Belgun

We construct global Kuranishi charts for the moduli spaces of stable pseudoholomorphic maps to a closed symplectic manifold in all genera. This is used to prove a product formula for symplectic Gromov-Witten invariants. As a consequence we…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Amanda Hirschi , Mohan Swaminathan

This paper establishes the orderability of contact manifolds which are quotients of fillable contact manifolds under finite group actions compatible with the filling, the prototypical example being $\mathbb{R}P^{2n-1}$ as the quotient of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Dylan Cant , Eric Kilgore , Jun Zhang

We show that the differential in positive equivariant symplectic homology or linearized contact homology vanishes for non-degenerate Reeb flows with a continuous invariant Lagrangian subbundle (e.g. Anosov Reeb flows). Several applications…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-02-27 Leonardo Macarini , Gabriel P. Paternain

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 introduce the notion of asymptotically finitely generated contact structures, which states essentially that the Symplectic Homology in a certain degree of any filling of such contact manifolds is uniformly generated by only finitely many…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Alexander Fauck

We prove that every homotopy class of almost contact structures on a closed 5-dimensional manifold admits a contact structure.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-10 Roger Casals , Dishant M. Pancholi , Francisco Presas

We study contact structures on nonnegatively-graded manifolds equipped with homological contact vector fields. In the degree 1 case, we show that there is a one-to-one correspondence between such structures (with fixed contact form) and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-08-20 Rajan Amit Mehta

Contact manifolds are odd-dimensional smooth manifolds endowed with a maximally non-integrable field of hyperplanes. They are intimately related to symplectic manifolds, i.e. even-dimensional smooth manifolds endowed with a closed…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Sheila Sandon

We study $\mathcal D$-homothetic deformations of almost $\alpha$-Kenmotsu structures. We characterize almost contact metric manifolds which are $CR$-integrable almost $\alpha$-Kenmotsu manifolds, through the existence of a canonical linear…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-25 Giulia Dileo

We introduce $L_{\infty}$-Kuranishi spaces by associating, to each chart, $L_{\infty}[1]$-algebras defined on open neighborhoods of the zero points of the Kuranishi section. We show that these objects collectively form a category, which…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Taesu Kim

We prove, for a class of contact manifolds, that the universal cover of the group of contact diffeomorphisms carries a natural partial order. It leads to a new viewpoint on geometry and dynamics of contactomorphisms. It gives rise to…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yakov Eliashberg , Leonid Polterovich

It is a conjecture of Colin and Honda that the number of Reeb periodic orbits of universally tight contact structures on hyperbolic manifolds grows exponentially with the period, and they speculate further that the growth rate of contact…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Anne Vaugon