Branched Covers and Contact Structures

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 01 Jan 1987Publisher:JSTORJournal:Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, volume 101, page 347 (issn: 0002-9939,

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Authors: Gonzalo, Jesus;

doi: 10.2307/2046007 , 10.1090/s0002-9939-1987-0902554-9

Branched Covers and Contact Structures

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Abstract

The object of this paper is to prove the following Theorem. Every closed, orientable three-manifold has a parallelization by three contact forms.

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contact structure, General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.), 3-manifold

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