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A classifying space for the contact pseudogroup

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

C. B. Thomas
C. B. Thomas
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Department of Mathematics, University College London
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§1. With respect to coordinates {z, x1, …, xq+1, …, x2q} a contact transformation is a local diffeomorphism of ℝ2q+1, which preserves the 1-form

up to multiplication by a non-zero real valued function. The family of such maps contains identities, inverses and admits a partial composition law; denote it by the contact pseudogroup. Passing to germs of local diffeomorphisms we obtain a topological groupoid Γ2q+1, ω, to which by any of several constructions, see [1] for example, there corresponds a classifying space BΓ2q+1, ω, By analogy with BΓq this space classifies codimension (2q + l)-foliations, which locally admit a contact structure normal to the leaves. In particular, at least when q is odd, the structural group of the normal bundle reduces to Uq. We shall be most interested in the case, when the foliation is by points, and the underlying manifold M2q+1 admits a global 1-form co such that

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Mathematika , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , December 1978 , pp. 191 - 201
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Copyright © University College London 1978

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