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ON THE TOPOLOGY OF THE SPACE OF CONTACT STRUCTURES ON TORUS BUNDLES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2004

HANSJÖRG GEIGES  and
JESÚS GONZALO
HANSJÖRG GEIGES
Affiliation:
Mathematisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Weyertal 86–90, 50931 Köln, [email protected]
JESÚS GONZALO
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, [email protected]
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Abstract

Based on the classification of contact structures on the 3-torus and classical contact geometric methods, it is shown that there exist essential loops in the space of contact structures on torus bundles over the circle.

Keywords

53D35 (primary)57R1757Txx (secondary)
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Papers
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Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society , Volume 36 , Issue 5 , September 2004 , pp. 640 - 646
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© The London Mathematical Society 2004

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