{ "id": "math/0404519", "version": "v2", "published": "2004-04-28T19:29:39.000Z", "updated": "2004-05-05T16:23:40.000Z", "title": "Contact manifolds and generalized complex structures", "authors": [ "David Iglesias-Ponte", "Aïssa Wade" ], "comment": "12 pages, typos corrected", "doi": "10.1016/j.geomphys.2004.06.006", "categories": [ "math.DG", "math.SG" ], "abstract": "We give simple characterizations of contact 1-forms in terms of Dirac structures. We also relate normal almost contact structures to the theory of Dirac structures.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2004-05-05T16:23:40.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "17B62", "17B63", "17B66" ], "keywords": [ "generalized complex structures", "contact manifolds", "dirac structures", "contact structures" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 12, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }