Invariants of contact structures and transversally oriented foliations

Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 427-441

  Banyaga, Augustin ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affine representations; Characteristic foliations; Contact flows; Contact structures; Orientation class; Simple foliations; Transverse calabi and thurston invariants; Transverse symplectic geometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011879229     PISSN: 0232704X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00129900     Document Type: Article

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