Contact Haefliger–Thurston conjecture
Let be a contact manifold of dimension , where is a smooth -form such that is a volume form. Let be the group of compactly supported, orientation-preserving smooth contactomorphisms, namely smooth diffeomorphisms satisfying for a positive smooth function . Give the discrete topology. The natural map
Contact Haefliger–Thurston conjecture. The natural map induces a homology isomorphism through degree and a surjection on homology in degree .
This is the analogue of the Haefliger–Thurston conjecture for foliations with transverse contact structure. The source presents it as a formulation motivated by the vanishing range of continuous Lie algebra cohomology for formal contact vector fields, and gives no resolution.
References
Primary source
Sam Nariman, “On flat manifold bundles and the connectivity of Haefliger's classifying spaces”, arXiv:2202.00052 (2024).
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