 ##  [Contact Topology](/index.php/contact-topology) 

  ##  [Contact Topology](https://puremath.quantumdictionary.io/contact-topology-0) 

  
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Definition

The study of contact manifolds: odd-dimensional manifolds equipped with maximally nonintegrable hyperplane distributions (contact structures), and the maps that preserve them (contactomorphisms), together with global phenomena and invariants arising from nonintegrability and associated dynamics.