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Abstract
The main purpose of this dissertation is to understand the large scale geometry of the space of contactforms supporting a given overtwisted contact structure $\xi$ on a contact manifold $Y$. In order to achieve
this, inspired by analogous work of Ostrover and Polterovich which was further developed by Usher, Gutt,
Zhang and Stojisavljevic, we define a distance on the space of contact forms $\alpha$ with $ker(\alpha) = \xi$ which
we denote by $C^Y_\xi$. This distance is called the contact Banach-Mazur distance. It can be viewed as the
analogue of of the symplectic Banach-Mazur distance for Liouville domains, in the case of overtwisted or
more generally non-fillable contact manifolds. Viewing contact homology algebra as a persistence module,
focusing purely on the overtwisted case and exploiting the fact that the contact homology of overtwisted
contact structures vanishes, allows us to bi-Lipschitz embed part of the 2-dimensional Euclidean space
into the space of overtwisted contact forms $C^Y_\xi$ supporting a given contact structure on a smooth closed
manifold $Y$ . This is the main result of this work.