Existence conjecture for connected contactifications of compact symplectic manifolds

Let (N,ω)(N,\omega) be a compact symplectic manifold, and let >0\hbar>0. The Dirac quantization condition is

[ω/2π]H2(N,Z).\big[\omega/2\pi\hbar\big]\in H^2(N,\mathbb{Z}).

A contactification of (N,ω)(N,\omega) is a contact-geometric lift as defined in the source, and it is connected when its total space is connected. Contactification existence conjecture. The manifold (N,ω)(N,\omega) admits a connected contactification if and only if it satisfies the Dirac quantization condition for some >0\hbar>0.

The conjecture identifies the Dirac quantization condition as the exact obstruction to constructing a connected contactification of a compact symplectic manifold. The source states that this existence question remains open, since contactifications can be topologically complicated.

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Katarzyna Grabowska, Janusz Grabowski, Marek Kuś and Giuseppe Marmo, “Contactifications: a Lagrangian description of compact Hamiltonian systems”, arXiv:2404.19560 (2024).

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