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In this chapter we first discuss integral submanifolds of a contact manifold, that is, submanifolds whose tangent vectors belong to the contact subbundle. We then study contact transformations, some characterizations, their transitivity, etc., and end the chapter with several examples.
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Blair, D.E. (2010). Integral Submanifolds and Contact Transformations. In: Riemannian Geometry of Contact and Symplectic Manifolds. Progress in Mathematics, vol 203. Birkhäuser, Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4959-3_5
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