Contact and isocontact embedding of $\pi$-manifolds

Abstract

We prove some contact analogs of smooth embedding theorems for closed $\pi$-manifolds. We show that a closed, $k$-connected, $\pi$-manifold of dimension (2n + 1) that bounds a $\pi$-manifold, contact embeds in the $(4n-2k+3)$-dimensional Euclidean space with the standard contact structure. We also prove some isocontact embedding results for $\pi$-manifolds and parallelizable manifolds.

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