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Contact Topology by George Torres, Robert Gompf

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Contact Topology
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Publisher: University of Texas at Austin
Number of pages: 51

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This is a course on contact manifolds, which are odd dimensional manifolds with an extra structure called a contact structure. Most of our study will focus on three dimensional manifolds, though many of these notions hold for any odd dimension.

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