@article{1c4c69a8c0df4aa89552b32ebabb0144,
title = "Contact structures on M×S2",
abstract = "We show that if a manifold M admits a contact structure, then so does M×S 2. Our proof relies on surgery theory, a theorem of Eliashberg on contact surgery and a theorem of Bourgeois showing that if M admits a contact structure then so does M×T 2. ",
author = "Jonathan Bowden and Diarmuid Crowley and Stipsicz, {Andras I.}",
note = "The authors would like to thank the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn for its hospitality while parts of this work has been carried out, and Hansj{\"o}rg Geiges for useful comments on an earlier draft of the paper. AS was partially supported by OTKA NK81203, by the Lend{\"u}let program of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and by ERC LDTBud. The present work is part of the authors{\textquoteright} activities within CAST, a Research Network Program of the European Science Foundation.",
year = "2014",
month = feb,
doi = "10.1007/s00208-013-0963-9",
language = "English",
volume = "358",
pages = "351--359",
journal = "Mathematische Annalen",
issn = "0025-5831",
publisher = "Springer New York",
number = "1-2",
}