A differential 1-form
α on a manifold of odd dimension
2n+1 2 n + 1 , which satisfies the contact condition
α ∧ ( d α ) n ≠ 0 almost everywhere, but which vanishes at a point O , i.e.,
α ( O ) = 0 , is called a singular contact form at O . The aim of this paper is to study local normal forms (formal, analytic and smooth) of
... [Show full abstract] such singular contact forms. Our study leads naturally to the study of normal forms of singular primitive 1-forms of a symplectic form ω in dimension 2 n , i.e., differential 1-forms γ which vanish at a point and such that d γ = ω , and their corresponding conformal vector fields. Our results are an extension and improvement of previous results obtained by other authors, in particular Lychagin (1975), Webster (Amer. J. Math. 109 , 807–832 (1987)) and Zhitomirskii (1986, 1992). Besides the classical normalization techniques, such as the step-by step normalization methods based on the cohomological equations and the Moser path method, we also use the toric approach to the normalization problem for dynamical systems (Jiang et al. 2019; Zung, Ann. Math. 161 , 141–156 2005; Zung 2016; Zung, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 229 , 789–833 (2018)).