Abstract
AbstractThis note provides an affirmative answer to a question of Viterbo concerning the existence of nondiffeomorphic contact forms that share the same Reeb vector field. Starting from an observation by Croke–Kleiner and Abbondandolo that such contact forms define the same total volume, we discuss various related issues for the wider class of geodesible vector fields. In particular, we define an Euler class of a geodesible vector field in the associated basic cohomology and give a topological characterisation of vector fields with vanishing Euler class. We prove the theorems of Gauß–Bonnet and Poincaré–Hopf for closed, oriented 2-dimensional orbifolds using global surfaces of section and the volume determined by a geodesible vector field. This volume is computed for Seifert fibred 3-manifolds and for some transversely holomorphic flows.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Applied Mathematics,Geometry and Topology,Modeling and Simulation
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