Contact Pairs
BANDE, GIANLUCA;
2005-01-01
Abstract
We introduce a new geometric structure on differentiable manifolds. A Con- tact Pair on a 2h+2k+2-dimensional manifold M is a pair (α, η) of Pfaffian forms of constant classes 2k + 1 and 2h + 1, respectively, whose characteristic foliations are transverse and com- plementary and such that α and η restrict to contact forms on the leaves of the characteristic foliations of η and α, respectively. Further differential objects are associated to Contact Pairs: two commuting Reeb vector fields, Legendrian curves on M and two Lie brackets on the set of differentiable functions on M. We give a local model and several existence theorems on nilpotent Lie groups, nilmanifolds, bundles over the circle and principal torus bundles.Items in DSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.