An introduction to Sasakian manifolds
 
 
Description:  I will introduce the first elements of contact and almost contact geometry, starting from the notion of contact manifold. I will briefly mention its relation with symplectic geometry as well as some application to physics. I will present the notions of normality and compatible metric in an almost contact manifold, focusing on Sasakian manifolds which are the most widely studied class of contact Riemannian manifolds. Finally, I will mention some topics of my recent research on geometry and topology of Sasakian manifolds.
Date:  2017-03-22
Start Time:   15:00
Speaker:  Antonio de Nicola (CMUC, Univ. Coimbra)
Institution:  CMUC
Place:  Room 2.5
Organization:  UC|UP Joint PhD Program in Mathematics
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