Timeline for Why is the standard contact structure on $\mathbb R^{2n+1}$ called "standard"?
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| Dec 1, 2020 at 23:43 | vote | accept | boink | ||
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| Dec 1, 2020 at 14:31 | comment | added | Marco Golla | You can find an embedding of $\mathbb{R}^{2n+1}$ with the standard contact structure (not with the standard contact form) around each point of any contact $2n+1$-manifold. It's not just a local statement. | |
| Dec 1, 2020 at 12:36 | comment | added | Oleg Eroshkin | That is a bad reason. Actually, Darboux theorem shows that all contact structures are locally isomorphic. It can't be a reason to call one structure "standard". | |
| S Dec 1, 2020 at 9:03 | history | answered | Thomas Rot | CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
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