Chennai Mathematical Institute

Seminars




3.30 p.m.
Orderability and contact fibrations

Francisco Presas Mata
ICMAT-CSIC, Spain.
27-02-13


Abstract

A contact manifold is called orderable if it admits a partial order in the universal cover of the group of its contact transformations. There has been a huge amount of results stating which contact manifolds are orderable. We reprove some of them by using the concept of contact fibration.