Almost contact 5-manifolds are contact

Pages 429-490 from Volume 182 (2015), Issue 2 by Roger Casals, Dishant M. Pancholi, Francisco Presas

Abstract

The existence of a contact structure is proved in any homotopy class of almost contact structures on a closed $5$-dimensional manifold.

Keywords
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Mathematical Subject Classification

Primary 2000: Secondary: ,

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4007/annals.2015.182.2.2
MR
3418523
zbMATH
06487145
Milestones
Received: 16 April 2012
Revised: 4 October 2014
Accepted: 13 October 2014
Published online: 30 July 2015

Authors

Roger Casals

Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, C. Nicolás Cabrera, Madrid, Spain

Dishant M. Pancholi

Chennai Mathematical Institute, Kelambakkam, Siruseri, India

Francisco Presas

Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, C. Nicolás Cabrera, Madrid, Spain