Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Within the framework of classical contact geometry, the first author introduced the notion of contact symplectic structure --the data of an exact symplectic fibration with a contact base-- and proved, under mild conditions, that the total space of such a fibration inherits a contact structure compatible with the fibration map, thereby establishing the contact Thurston theorem. This paper provides a derived contact version of that result by incorporating our prior work on the derived symplectic Thurston theorem. In this paper, we prove, under certain conditions, that if a morphism $π: X \rightarrow S$ of derived stacks has a shifted exact symplectic fibration structure and the target stack $S$ admits a shifted contact structure, then one can construct a shifted contact structure on the source stack $X$, compatible with $π$ in a sense similar to the smooth case. Our framework relies on the theory of relative shifted structures; hence our result, called the derived contact Thurston theorem, in fact establishes a relative-to-absolute type construction. As an application, we present examples of our relative-to-absolute construction formalism in the derived contact setting, including conormal stacks, quotient mapping stacks, and affine exact symplectic fibrations.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Institution: Middle East Technical University
Language: English
Subfield: Mathematical Physics
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi
OpenAlex ID: W7212040135