Branched covers and contact structures

Branched covers and contact structures
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 101 (1987), 347-352 Request permission

The object of this paper is to prove the following Theorem. Every closed, orientable three-manifold has a parallelization by three contact forms.

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