Almost Contact and Contact Geometry
This chapter presents the necessary foundational material on almost contact, contact, and metric contact structures. The key result is an orbifold version of the famous Boothby-Wang fibration. An introduction of a compatible Riemannian metric naturally leads to the definition of K-contact and Sasakian structures introduced at the very end.
Keywords: almost contact structure, Boothby-Wang fibration, contact structure, metric contact structure, Sasakian structure, K-contact structure
Oxford Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .