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Quaternionic contact structures in dimension 7

David Duchemin (2006)

Annales de l’institut Fourier

The conformal infinity of a quaternionic-Kähler metric on a 4 n -manifold with boundary is a codimension 3 distribution on the boundary called quaternionic contact. In dimensions 4 n - 1 greater than 7 , a quaternionic contact structure is always the conformal infinity of a quaternionic-Kähler metric. On the contrary, in dimension 7 , we prove a criterion for quaternionic contact structures to be the conformal infinity of a quaternionic-Kähler metric. This allows us to find the quaternionic-contact structures...

The BV-algebra of a Jacobi manifold

Izu Vaisman (2000)

Annales Polonici Mathematici

We show that the Gerstenhaber algebra of the 1-jet Lie algebroid of a Jacobi manifold has a canonical exact generator, and discuss duality between its homology and the Lie algebroid cohomology. We also give new examples of Lie bialgebroids over Poisson manifolds.

The discriminant and oscillation lengths for contact and Legendrian isotopies

Vincent Colin, Sheila Sandon (2015)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

We define an integer-valued non-degenerate bi-invariant metric (the discriminant metric) on the universal cover of the identity component of the contactomorphism group of any contact manifold. This metric has a very simple geometric definition, based on the notion of discriminant points of contactomorphisms. Using generating functions we prove that the discriminant metric is unbounded for the standard contact structures on 2 n × S 1 and P 2 n + 1 . On the other hand we also show by elementary arguments that the...

Universal prolongation of linear partial differential equations on filtered manifolds

Katharina Neusser (2009)

Archivum Mathematicum

The aim of this article is to show that systems of linear partial differential equations on filtered manifolds, which are of weighted finite type, can be canonically rewritten as first order systems of a certain type. This leads immediately to obstructions to the existence of solutions. Moreover, we will deduce that the solution space of such equations is always finite dimensional.

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