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Two contact structures on \\(M\\) are called isomorphic if there is a contactomorphism, that is a self-diffeomorphism of \\(M\\) sending one to the other. They are called homotopic if they can be connected in the space of 2-plane fields on \\(M\\), and they are called isotopic if they can be connected in the space of contact structures on \\(M\\). By a classical result of Gray isotopy is equivalent to the existence of a contactomorphism isotopic to the identity. There is a fundamental dichotomy among contact structures: \\(\\xi\\) is called overtwisted if there is an embedded disc \\(D\\subset M\\) such that its characteristic foliation (obtained by integrating the induced line field on \\(D)\\) contains a closed orbit with exactly one singular point inside. Otherwise, \\(\\xi\\) is called tight. For overtwisted contact structures on closed 3-manifolds \\textit{Y. 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Different Stein structures are shown to induce homotopic contact structures on the same homology 3-sphere, whereas for the detection of non-isotopic contact structures Seiberg-Witten theory is applied. The proof can be adopted to prove the following theorem (a different proof has been recently announced by Kronheimer and Mrowka): Let \\(X\\) be a smooth 4-manifold with boundary. Suppose \\(J_1\\), \\(J_2\\) are two Stein structures with boundary on \\(X\\) with associated \\(\\text{Spin}^c\\)-structures \\(\\Theta_1\\) and \\(\\Theta_2\\). 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