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The regularity and products in contact geometry

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We study regular contact manifolds $(M,\eta)$ whose Reeb vector field is complete and prove that they are canonically principal bundles with the structure group $S^1$ or $\mathbb{R}$. For compact $M$, our proof is very short and elementary and covers the celebrated Boothby-Wang theorem, but we do not assume compactness from the very beginning. However, to prove our result in full generality we use some topological tools adapted to smooth fibrations. In the second part of the paper, we describe a natural concept of contact products of general contact manifolds as well as a product of principal contact manifolds, which exists if the periods of the Reeb vector fields are commensurate, and corresponds to the construction of products of prequantization bundles of symplectic manifolds.

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Sasaki structures on general contact manifolds

math.DG · 2024-12-21 · accept · novelty 7.0

Sasakian structures are defined for arbitrary contact manifolds using Kähler structures on symplectic R^x-bundles, recovering the classical case and giving a canonical Sasakian product.

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  • Sasaki structures on general contact manifolds math.DG · 2024-12-21 · accept · none · ref 13 · internal anchor

    Sasakian structures are defined for arbitrary contact manifolds using Kähler structures on symplectic R^x-bundles, recovering the classical case and giving a canonical Sasakian product.