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We prove that contact structures (in the restricted sense) are determined by their automorphism groups.
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Banyaga, A., McInerney, A. On isomorphic classical diffeomorphism groups, III. Ann Glob Anal Geom 13, 117–127 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01120327
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