Reeb vector field
In mathematics, the Reeb vector field, named after the French mathematician Georges Reeb, is a notion that appears in various domains of contact geometry including:
- in a contact manifold, given a contact 1-form , the Reeb vector field satisfies ,
- in particular, in the context of Sasakian manifold#The Reeb vector field.
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