Realizing Homology Classes by Almost-Complex Submanifolds.
We prove the (first) reduction theorem for general and classical connections, i.e. we prove that any natural operator of a general connection Γ on a fibered manifold and a classical connection Λ on the base manifold can be expressed as a zero order operator of the curvature tensors of Γ and Λ and their appropriate derivatives.
We define a procedure of reduction of locally conformal symplectic structures. We find a necessary and sufficient condition for this reduction to hold in terms of a special kind of de Rham cohomology class (tangent to the characteristic foliation) of the Lee form.
The purpose of these survey notes is to give a presentation of a classical theorem of Nomizu [Nom54] that relates the invariant affine connections on reductive homogeneous spaces and nonassociative algebras.
We determine parts of the contact homology of certain contact 3-manifolds in the framework of open book decompositions, due to Giroux.We study two cases: when the monodromy map of the compatible open book is periodic and when it is pseudo-Anosov. For an open book with periodic monodromy, we verify the Weinstein conjecture. In the case of an open book with pseudo-Anosov monodromy, suppose the boundary of a page of the open book is connected and the fractional Dehn twist coefficient equals , where...