Contact structures on 1‐connected 5‐manifolds

DOI10.1112/S002557930000663XzbMath0724.57017MaRDI QIDQ4711179

Hansjörg Geiges

Publication date: 25 June 1992

Published in: Mathematika (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

contact manifoldsymplectic formssurgeryalmost contact structure5-manifoldBoothby-Wang fibrationLegendre embeddings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15)

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