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    In mathematics, contact geometry is the study of a geometric structure on smooth manifolds given by a hyperplane distribution in the tangent bundle satisfying...
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  • differential forms of degree 1 on odd-dimensional manifolds; see contact geometry. Contact transformations are related changes of coordinates, of importance...
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    Differential geometry is a mathematical discipline that studies the geometry of smooth shapes and smooth spaces, otherwise known as smooth manifolds....
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    Symplectic geometry is a branch of differential geometry and differential topology that studies symplectic manifolds; that is, differentiable manifolds...
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  • derivative Lie derivative pullback (differential geometry) pushforward (differential) jet (mathematics) Contact (mathematics) jet bundle Frobenius theorem (differential...
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  • Darboux's theorem (category Symplectic geometry)
    There is also an analogous consequence of the theorem applied to contact geometry. Suppose that θ {\displaystyle \theta } is a differential 1-form on...
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    Contact geometry is in many ways an odd-dimensional counterpart of symplectic geometry, which belongs to the even-dimensional world. Both contact and...
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  • Thumbnail for Mikhael Gromov (mathematician)
    exact Lagrangian immersions and similar objects in symplectic and contact geometry. His well-known book Partial Differential Relations collects most of...
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    Information Technology. Murphy works in the area of symplectic topology, contact geometry and geometric topology. Murphy graduated from the University of Nevada...
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    problem can be classified into two types based on the geometry of the area of contact. A conforming contact is one in which the two bodies touch at multiple...
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  • topology, relative contact homology is an invariant of spaces together with a chosen subspace. Namely, it is associated to a contact manifold and one of...
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    Lie sphere geometry is a geometrical theory of planar or spatial geometry in which the fundamental concept is the circle or sphere. It was introduced by...
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    Contact lenses, or simply contacts, are thin lenses placed directly on the surface of the eyes. Contact lenses are ocular prosthetic devices used by over...
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    deformation. The contact area depends on the geometry of the contacting bodies, the load, and the material properties. The contact area between the two...
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  • in symplectic spin geometry and symplectic topology, which have become important fields of mathematical research. Contact geometry Symplectic topology...
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  • differential geometry C for global differential geometry D for symplectic geometry and contact geometry In addition, the special second-level code "-"...
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    altered freely, and the contact patch area is affected by the tire geometry and stiffness. Further, the size of the contact patch cannot be simply calculated...
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  • Thumbnail for Richard S. Hamilton
    Hamilton studied certain variational problems for Riemannian metrics in contact geometry. He also made contributions to the prescribed Ricci curvature problem...
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    mathematics, hyperbolic geometry (also called Lobachevskian geometry or Bolyai–Lobachevskian geometry) is a non-Euclidean geometry. The parallel postulate...
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    loading conditions, including the magnitude of the load, contact pressure, and contact geometry. PCS Instruments Micro-pitting Rig (MPR) is a specialised...
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  • Weinstein conjecture (category Contact geometry)
    compact contact manifold, its Reeb vector field should carry at least one periodic orbit. By definition, a level set of contact type admits a contact form...
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  • Giroux (born 1961) is a blind French geometer known for his research on contact geometry and open book decompositions. Giroux has Marfan syndrome, because of...
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  • name of Ricci calculus Absolute geometry Also called neutral geometry, a synthetic geometry similar to Euclidean geometry but without the parallel postulate...
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  • Claire; Allen, Peter (March 2007). "Soft Finger Model with Adaptive Contact Geometry for Grasping and Manipulation Tasks". Second Joint EuroHaptics Conference...
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  • ideas, i.e., in terms of tangent manifolds, symplectic manifolds and contact geometry. Bleecker's textbook provided a comprehensive presentation of field...
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  • Open book decomposition (category Contact geometry)
    books have relevance to contact geometry, with a famous theorem of Emmanuel Giroux (given below) that shows that contact geometry can be studied from an...
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    (Eds.). Collected Works, Volume IV: Singularities in Symplectic and Contact Geometry 1980–1985. Springer. 2023: Alexander B. Givental, Boris A. Khesin,...
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    contact with a solid surface Popov, Valentin L.; Pohrt, Roman; Li, Qiang (2017-09-01). "Strength of adhesive contacts: Influence of contact geometry and...
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