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Normalization of singular contact forms and primitive 1-forms

Differential Geometry 2019-05-21 v2 Mathematical Physics Dynamical Systems math.MP

Abstract

A differential 1-form α\alpha on a manifold of odd dimension 2n+12n+1, which satisfies the contact condition α(dα)n0\alpha \wedge (d\alpha)^n \neq 0 almost everywhere, but which vanishes at a point OO, i.e. α(O)=0\alpha (O) = 0, is called a \textit{singular contact form} at OO. The aim of this paper is to study local normal forms (formal, analytic and smooth) of such singular contact forms. Our study leads naturally to the study of normal forms of singular primitive 1-forms of a symplectic form ω\omega in dimension 2n2n, i.e. differential 1-forms γ\gamma which vanish at a point and such that dγ=ωd\gamma = \omega, and their corresponding conformal vector fields. Our results are an extension and improvement of previous results obtained by other authors, in particular Lychagin \cite{Lychagin-1stOrder1975}, Webster \cite{Webster-1stOrder1987} and Zhitomirskii \cite{Zhito-1Form1986,Zhito-1Form1992}. We make use of both the classical normalization techniques and the toric approach to the normalization problem for dynamical systems \cite{Zung_Birkhoff2005, Zung_Integrable2016, Zung_AA2018}.

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@article{arxiv.1804.06232,
  title  = {Normalization of singular contact forms and primitive 1-forms},
  author = {Kai Jiang and Truong Hong Minh and Nguyen Tien Zung},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.06232},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

19 pages, 1 figure, small revision, improve the statement of Theorem 1.3

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