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Florida International University

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2004

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Fibrations And Contact Structures, Hamidou Dathe, Philippe Rukimbira Oct 2004

Fibrations And Contact Structures, Hamidou Dathe, Philippe Rukimbira

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

We prove that a closed 3-dimensional manifold is a torus bundle over the circle if and only if it carries a closed nonsingular 1-form which is linearly deformable into contact forms.