Contact structures and periodic fundamental groups
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contactfundamentalgroupstructuresargumentscobordismcohomologicalcurvature
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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.
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