Bott-integrability of overtwisted contact structures

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Abstract

We show that an overtwisted contact structure on a closed and oriented -manifold can be defined by a contact form having a Bott-integrable Reeb flow if and only if the Poincaré dual of its Euler class is represented by a graph link.

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Hansjörg Geiges, Jakob Hedicke, Murat Sağlam, Bott-integrability of overtwisted contact structures. Rev. Mat. Iberoam. 42 (2026), no. 4, pp. 1465–1486

DOI 10.4171/RMI/1623