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Bott-integrability of overtwisted contact structures

Symplectic Geometry 2026-03-31 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We show that an overtwisted contact structure on a closed, oriented 3-manifold can be defined by a contact form having a Bott-integrable Reeb flow if and only if the Poincar\'e dual of its Euler class is represented by a graph link.

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@article{arxiv.2501.05784,
  title  = {Bott-integrability of overtwisted contact structures},
  author = {Hansjörg Geiges and Jakob Hedicke and Murat Sağlam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.05784},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

19 pages, 1 figure; v2: added Remark 1.3 and some references

R2 v1 2026-06-28T21:02:20.625Z