Contact topology and the structure of 5-manifolds with \(\pi_1={\mathbb Z}_2\)

DOI10.5802/AIF.1653zbMath0912.57020OpenAlexW2058525351MaRDI QIDQ1271459

Hansjörg Geiges, Charles B. Thomas

Publication date: 9 November 1998

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.numdam.org/item?id=AIF_1998__48_4_1167_0

zbMATH Keywords

contact surgeryinvolutionsBrieskorn manifoldssurgerycontact structurescharacteristic submanifoldpin cobordism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15)

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