$E_8$-plumbings and exotic contact structures on spheres
Symplectic Geometry
2007-05-23 v2 Geometric Topology
Abstract
We prove the existence of exotic but homotopically trivial contact structures on spheres of dimension 8k-1. Together with previous results of Eliashberg and the second author this establishes the existence of such structures on all odd-dimensional spheres (of dimension at least 3).
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@article{arxiv.math/0403358,
title = {$E_8$-plumbings and exotic contact structures on spheres},
author = {Fan Ding and Hansjörg Geiges},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0403358},
year = {2007}
}
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12 pages