Timeline for Question about the dimension of a Contact (Symplectic) manifold
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| Feb 22, 2011 at 1:19 | comment | added | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | By the way, something I should have mentioned, if only in passing, is that one statement of the second law of thermodynamics is that a certain nowhere-vanishing one-form $\alpha$ (the so-called heat form) should fail (maximally) to be a contact structure; that is, $\alpha \wedge d\alpha = 0$. | |
| Feb 21, 2011 at 23:57 | vote | accept | Phi Le | ||
| Feb 21, 2011 at 9:52 | history | answered | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | CC BY-SA 2.5 |