The almost contact-to-contact existence conjecture
The almost contact-to-contact existence conjecture
Let be a -dimensional manifold equipped with an almost contact structure, meaning a codimension- cooriented distribution together with a conformally symplectic class on it. Almost contact-to-contact existence conjecture. Any almost contact structure on a manifold admits a deformation in its homotopy class of almost contact structures to a contact structure. This is the fundamental existence conjecture of contact topology: it asserts that the formal almost contact condition is sufficient for the existence of a contact structure in the same homotopy class. The supplied text does not indicate whether the conjecture has been resolved.
Sources & referencesView supporting material
Primary source
Francisco Presas, “Geometric decompositions of almost contact manifolds”, arXiv:1211.4696 (2012).
Progress summary
Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.
Solutions 0
Sign in to submit a solution.
No solutions have been posted yet.