Contact topology and the structure of 5-manifolds with \(\pi_1={\mathbb Z}_2\) (Q1271459)
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Contact topology and the structure of 5-manifolds with \(\pi_1={\mathbb Z}_2\) (English)
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9 November 1998
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The main result of this paper is that a closed orientable 5-manifold with fundamental group \(\mathbb{Z}_2\) and with second Stiefel-Whitney class evaluating to zero on integral homology admits a contact structure. The paper constructs contact structures on ten example manifolds and uses contact surgery to obtain the general case.
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surgery
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contact structures
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contact surgery
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involutions
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Brieskorn manifolds
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characteristic submanifold
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pin cobordism
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