In differential geometry, a contact bundle is a particular type of fiber bundle constructed from a smooth manifold. Like how the tangent bundle is the manifold that describes the local behavior of parameterized curves, a contact bundle (of order 1) is the manifold that describes the local behavior of unparameterized curves.
In differential geometry, a contact bundle is a particular type of fiber bundle constructed from a smooth manifold. Like how the tangent bundle is the manifold that describes the local behavior of parameterized curves, a contact bundle (of order 1) is the manifold that describes the local behavior of unparameterized curves.
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