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The survey contains main results of the theory of automorphisms of symplectic (almost symplectic) and contact (almost contact) structures and the original results of the authors of estimates of the maximal dimension of Lie groups of automorphisms of symplectic and contact structures that preserve an associated linear connection.
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Translated from Sovremennaya Matematika i Ee Prilozheniya (Contemporary Mathematics and Its Applications), Vol. 96, Geometry and Analysis, 2015.
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Panzhensky, V.I., Tyapin, N.A. Automorphisms of Symplectic and Contact Structures. J Math Sci 217, 557–594 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-016-2991-y
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