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math.DG2025
On the existence of critical compatible metrics on contact -manifolds
Yoshihiko Mitsumatsu, Daniel Peralta-Salas, Radu Slobodeanu
We disprove the generalized Chern-Hamilton conjecture on the existence of critical compatible metrics on contact -manifolds. More precisely, we show that a contact -manifold…
math.DG2024
BPS Skyrme models and contact geometry
Radu Slobodeanu, Martin Speight
A Skyrme type energy functional for maps from an oriented Riemannian 3-manifold to a contact 3-manifold is defined, generalizing the BPS Skyrme energy of Ferreira and…