Contact structures on 5-manifolds
Symplectic Geometry
2013-02-05 v2 Geometric Topology
Abstract
Using recent work on high dimensional Lutz twists and families of Weinstein structures we show that any almost contact structure on a 5-manifold is homotopic to a contact structure.
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@article{arxiv.1210.5208,
title = {Contact structures on 5-manifolds},
author = {John B. Etnyre},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.5208},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
18 pages, 1 figure, fixed a potential gap in the proof of the main theorem and added details to clarify certain parts of the argument