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A note on the formality of some contact manifolds

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In this paper we study the formality of the total space of some circle and sphere bundles over symplectic manifolds which include some Sasakian manifolds.

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We would like to thank The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) for its hospitality and support during the preparation of this paper.

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Banyaga, A., Gatsinzi, J.B. & Massamba, F. A note on the formality of some contact manifolds. J. Geom. 109, 3 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00022-018-0409-3

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