Simply connected K-contact and Sasakian manifolds of dimension 7

We construct a compact simply-connected 7-dimensional manifold admitting a K-contact structure but not a Sasakian structure. We also study rational homotopy properties of such manifolds, proving in particular that a simply-connected 7-dimensional Sasakian manifold has vanishing cup-product on the se...

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Bibliographic Details
Authors: Muñoz, Vicente; Tralle, Aleksy
Format: Article
Publication date:2015
Country:España
Institution:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repository:Docta Complutense
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/34868
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/34868
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:514
515.1
Contact structure
Formality
Sasakian manifold
Symplectic manifold
Geometría
Topología
1204 Geometría
1210 Topología
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Summary:We construct a compact simply-connected 7-dimensional manifold admitting a K-contact structure but not a Sasakian structure. We also study rational homotopy properties of such manifolds, proving in particular that a simply-connected 7-dimensional Sasakian manifold has vanishing cup-product on the second cohomology and that it is formal if and only if all its triple Massey products vanish.