Nodal sets and contact structures
In this thesis the author develops techniques to study contact structures via Riemannian geometry. The main observation is a relation between characteristic surfaces of contact structures and zero sets of solutions to certain subelliptic PDEs. This relation makes it possible to derive, under a symme...
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Georgia Institute of Technology
2006
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/11517 |