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Contact forms on 1-connected 5-manifolds

Part of: Global differential geometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

C. B. Thomas
C. B. Thomas
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University College London.
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Extract

The even dimensional C∞ manifold M2n is said to be symplectic, if there exists a 2-form Ω, defined everywhere on M such that

(i)Ω is closed, that is dΩ, = 0, and

(ii)Ωn ≠ 0.

MSC classification

Secondary: 53C15: General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.)
Type
Research Article
Information
Mathematika , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , December 1977 , pp. 237 - 240
Copyright
Copyright © University College London 1977

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