Existence conjecture for connected contactifications of compact symplectic manifolds
Existence conjecture for connected contactifications of compact symplectic manifolds
Let be a compact symplectic manifold, and let . The Dirac quantization condition is
A contactification of 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 admits a connected contactification if and only if it satisfies the Dirac quantization condition for some .
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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