Contact structures on product five-manifolds and fibre sums along circles (Q985691)

The main result of the paper is a construction of contact structures on certain 5-manifolds. More precisely, the authors prove that, if \(W_1\) and \(W_2\) are two exact symplectic fillings of the same contact manifold \(M\), then the manifold \((W_1\cup_M W_2)\times S^1\) admits a contact structure. As a corollary, they obtain that any 5-dimensional manifold that is a Cartesian product of lower dimensional manifolds admits a contact structure.