Contact geometry

Layer 0 — Mathematicsin the symplectic-geometry subtree

Odd-dimensional analogue: (M^{2n+1}, α) with α ∧ (dα)^n a volume form. Contact manifolds are boundaries of symplectic fillings; the Reeb vector field plays the role of a preferred Hamiltonian flow.

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