4.1. H -Contact Manifolds

4.1.1. Contact Metric Manifolds

We start by reviewing a few facts of contact Riemannian geometry. Our main reference is the monograph [42] , yet we also rely on the exposition in [286] . Let B9780124158269000043/si21.gif is missing with the Cartesian coordinates B9780124158269000043/si22.gif is missing. A contact transformation is a local diffeomorphism of B9780124158269000043/si23.gif is missing preserving the 1-form
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