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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.