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Symplectic Lie–Rinehart–Jacobi Algebras and Contact Manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Eugène Okassa
Eugène Okassa*
Affiliation:
Université Marien NGOUABI, Faculté des Sciences, Département de Mathematiques, B.P. 69 Brazzaville, Congoe-mail: eugeneokassa@yahoo.fr
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Abstract

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We give a characterization of contact manifolds in terms of symplectic Lie–Rinehart–Jacobi algebras. We also give a sufficient condition for a Jacobi manifold to be a contact manifold.

Keywords

13N0553D0553D10Lie–Rinehart algebrasdifferential operatorsJacobi manifoldssymplectic manifoldscontact manifolds
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 54 , Issue 4 , 01 December 2011 , pp. 716 - 725
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2011

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