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Two constructions of virtually contact structures

Symplectic Geometry 2019-03-12 v3 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

Motivated by recent developments in proving the Weinstein conjecture we introduce the notion of covering contact connected sum for virtually contact manifolds and construct virtually contact structures on boundaries of subcritical handle bodies.

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@article{arxiv.1610.06201,
  title  = {Two constructions of virtually contact structures},
  author = {Kevin Wiegand and Kai Zehmisch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.06201},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

manuscript rewritten, stronger results

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