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Differential Graded Contact Geometry And Jacobi Structures, Rajan Amit Mehta

Mathematics Sciences: Faculty Publications

We study contact structures on nonnegatively graded manifolds equipped with homological contact vector fields. In the degree 1 case, we show that there is a one-to-one correspondence between such structures (with fixed contact form) and Jacobi manifolds. This correspondence allows us to reinterpret the Poissonization procedure, taking Jacobi manifolds to Poisson manifolds, as a supergeometric version of symplectization.