Contact geometry in the restricted three-body problem: a survey

These are expanded notes for an online mini-course taught for postgraduate students at UDELAR, Montevideo, Uruguay, in November 2020, remotely from the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Djursholm, Sweden. Lectures were recorded and are available on YouTube on the author’s personal channel (∼ 8hs of material in three lectures).

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