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Contact 3-manifolds twenty years since J. Martinet's work

Yakov Eliashberg (1992)

Annales de l'institut Fourier

The paper gives an account of the recent development in 3-dimensional contact geometry. The central result of the paper states that there exists a unique tight contact structure on S 3 . Together with the earlier classification of overtwisted contact structures on 3-manifolds this result completes the classification of contact structures on S 3 .

Contact CR-Submanifolds of Kenmotsu Manifolds

Atçeken, Mehmet (2011)

Serdica Mathematical Journal

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 53C15, 53C42.In this paper, we research some fundamental properties of contact CR-Submanifolds of a Kenmotsu manifold. We show that the anti-invariant distribution is always integrable and give a necessary and sufficient condition for the invariant distribution to be integrable. After then, properties of the induced structures on submanifold by almost contact metric structure on the ambient manifold are categorized. Finally, we give some results for contact...

Contact CR-submanifolds with parallel mean curvature vector of a Sasakian space form

U-Hang Ki, Masahiro Kon (1993)

Colloquium Mathematicae

The purpose of this paper is to study contact CR-submanifolds with nonvanishing parallel mean curvature vector immersed in a Sasakian space form. In §1 we state general formulas on contact CR-submanifolds of a Sasakian manifold, especially those of a Sasakian space form. §2 is devoted to the study of contact CR-submanifolds with nonvanishing parallel mean curvature vector and parallel f-structure in the normal bundle immersed in a Sasakian space form. Moreover, we suppose that the second fundamental...

Contact manifolds, harmonic curvature tensor and ( k , μ ) -nullity distribution

Basil J. Papantoniou (1993)

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae

In this paper we give first a classification of contact Riemannian manifolds with harmonic curvature tensor under the condition that the characteristic vector field ξ belongs to the ( k , μ ) -nullity distribution. Next it is shown that the dimension of the ( k , μ ) -nullity distribution is equal to one and therefore is spanned by the characteristic vector field ξ .

Contact topology and the structure of 5-manifolds with π 1 = 2

Hansjörg Geiges, Charles B. Thomas (1998)

Annales de l'institut Fourier

We prove a structure theorem for closed, orientable 5-manifolds M with fundamental group π 1 ( M ) = 2 and second Stiefel-Whitney class equal to zero on H 2 ( M ) . This structure theorem is then used to construct contact structures on such manifolds by applying contact surgery to fake projective spaces and certain 2 -quotients of  S 2 × S 3 .

CR submanifolds of maximal CR dimension in complex manifolds

Mirjana Djorić, Masafumi Okumura (2002)

Banach Center Publications

The aim of this paper is to investigate n-dimensional real submanifolds of complex manifolds in the case when the maximal holomorphic tangent space is (n-1)-dimensional. In particular, we give some examples and we consider the Levi form on these submanifolds, especially when the ambient space is a complex space form. Moreover, we show that on some remarkable class of real hypersurfaces of complex space forms, the Levi form cannot vanish identically.

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