Contact topology and the structure of 5-manifolds with
Hansjörg Geiges, Charles B. Thomas (1998)
Annales de l'institut Fourier
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We prove a structure theorem for closed, orientable 5-manifolds with fundamental group and second Stiefel-Whitney class equal to zero on . This structure theorem is then used to construct contact structures on such manifolds by applying contact surgery to fake projective spaces and certain -quotients of .