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We establish a parametric extension $h$-principle for overtwisted contact structures on manifolds of all dimensions, which is the direct generalization of the $3$-dimensional result from \cite{Eli89}. It implies, in particular, that any…
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We exhibit a 3-manifold which admits no tight contact structure.
In every odd dimension $n\geq 5$ we exhibit large classes of closed $n$-dimensional manifolds which admit infinitely many different geometries of positive Ricci curvature, i.e., manifolds for which their moduli space of metrics of positive…
We show that a $3-$dimensional paracontact manifold on which $Q\varphi =\varphi Q$ is either a manifold with $trh^2=0$, flat or of constant $\xi-$sectional curvature $k\neq-1$ and constant $\varphi$-sectional curvature $-k\neq 1$.
We construct a simply connected compact manifold which has complex and symplectic structures but does not admit K\"ahler metrics, in the lowest possible dimension where this can happen, that is, dimension 6. Such a manifold is automatically…
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We construct examples of non-formal simply connected and compact oriented manifolds of any dimension bigger or equal to 7.
We carry out the programme of R. Liouville \cite{Liouville} to construct an explicit local obstruction to the existence of a Levi--Civita connection within a given projective structure $[\Gamma]$ on a surface. The obstruction is of order 5…
This paper considers 4-dimensional manifolds upon which there is a Lorentz metric, h, and a symmetric connection and which are originally assumed unrelated. It then derives sufficient conditions on the metric and connection (expressed…
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