Contact structures and periodic fundamental groups
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Publication:6501060
arXivmath/9810071MaRDI QIDQ6501060FDOQ6501060
Authors: Hansjörg Geiges, Charles B. Thomas 
Abstract: By using cobordism theoretic arguments similar to those in the literature on positive scalar curvature metrics we prove the existence of contact structures on 5-dimensional spin manifolds whose fundamental group is a group of odd order (not divisible by 9) and finite cohomological period.
General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15) Equivariant cobordism (57R85)
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