Contact structures and periodic fundamental groups
Differential Geometry
2007-05-23 v1 Symplectic Geometry
Abstract
By using cobordism theoretic arguments similar to those in the literature on positive scalar curvature metrics we prove the existence of contact structures on 5-dimensional spin manifolds whose fundamental group is a group of odd order (not divisible by 9) and finite cohomological period.
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@article{arxiv.math/9810071,
title = {Contact structures and periodic fundamental groups},
author = {H. Geiges and C. B. Thomas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9810071},
year = {2007}
}
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16 pages