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On the Spheres Carrying an Almost Contingent Structure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

K. L. Duggal
K. L. Duggal*
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Department of Mathematics, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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It is well-known that odd dimensional spheres carry a normal contact structure [6], Blair, Ludden and Yano [2] have recently studied a more general structure whose non-trivial example is an even dimensional sphere. Recently, the present author introduced the notion of almost contingent structures [8] with a view to develop a unified theory of various existing structures on a differentiable manifold. It is the purpose of this paper to show that even as well as odd dimensional spheres carry an almost contingent structure. In the sequel, each manifold introduced is C∞, arcwise connected and satisfies the second axiom of countability.

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Research Article
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Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , June 1975 , pp. 195 - 201
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1975

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