arXiv · 1206.1218
Quantitative Darboux theorems in contact geometry
Abstract
This paper begins the study of relations between Riemannian geometry and contact topology in any dimension and continues this study in dimension 3. Specifically we provide a lower bound for the radius of a geodesic ball in a contact manifold that can be embedded in the standard contact structure on Euclidean space, that is on the size of a Darboux ball. The bound is established with respect to a Riemannian metric compatible with an associated contact form. In dimension three, it further leads us to an estimate of the size for a standard neighborhood of a closed Reeb orbit. The main tools are classical comparison theorems in Riemannian geometry. In the same context, we also use holomorphic curves techniques to provide a lower bound for the radius of a PS-tight ball.
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John B. Etnyre, Rafal Komendarczyk, Patrick Massot. 2016-02-04. Quantitative Darboux theorems in contact geometry. https://doi.org/10.1090/tran%2F6821
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