Connected sums of Brieskorn contact $5$-spheres

Abstract

In dimension $5$, the contact connected sum of Brieskorn contact spheres is, in general, not a Brieskorn contact sphere.

arXiv commentAdded monotonicity argument in Example 3.2.1, to appear in Arch. Math. (Basel)

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