Boothby Wang Fibrations, K-Contact Structures and Regularity

Series
Geometry Topology Student Seminar
Time
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Surena Hozoori – Georgia Institute of Technology – shozoori3@gatech.edu
Organizer
Surena Hozoori
Boothby Wang fibrations are historically important examples of contact manifolds and it turns out that we can equip these contact manifolds with extra structures, namely K-contact structures. Based on the study of the relation of these examples and the regularity properties of the corresponding Reeb vector fields, works of Boothby, Wang, Thomas and Rukimbira gives a classification of K-contact structures.