Mathematical Research Letters

Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2006 pp. 71-85.

Contact homology and homotopy groups of the space of contact structures

Authors: Frédéric Bourgeois
Author institution: Université Libre de Bruxelles

Summary: Using contact homology, we reobtain some recent results of Geiges and Gonzalo about the fundamental group of the space of contact structures on some 3-manifolds. We show that our techniques can be used to study higher-dimensional contact manifolds and higher order homotopy groups.

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