A Jacobi Coupling Construction on Associated Bundles

Abstract

We extend the Sternberg--Weinstein coupling construction to the Jacobi geometry setting. Starting from a Jacobi Hamiltonian $G$-space and a principal bundle equipped with a connection whose curvature satisfies some nondegeneracy condition, we show that the associated bundle naturally carries a Jacobi structure compatible with the canonical ones on the fibers. This construction provides a unified framework encompassing the symplectic, locally conformal symplectic, and contact cases. It reveals new coupling phenomena related to the presence of the Reeb vector field.