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A Smale-Barden manifold admitting K-contact but not Sasakian structure

Differential Geometry 2023-07-13 v2 Algebraic Geometry Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We give the first example of a simply connected compact 5-manifold (Smale-Barden manifold) which admits a K-contact structure but does not admit any Sasakian structure, settling a long standing question of Boyer and Galicki.

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@article{arxiv.2011.05783,
  title  = {A Smale-Barden manifold admitting K-contact but not Sasakian structure},
  author = {Vicente Muñoz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.05783},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

33 pages, 2 figures; version 2 largely improved, a mistake corrected, and the arguments simplified