%0 Journal Article %T K-contact Lie groups of dimension five or greater %A Brendan Foreman %J Mathematics %D 2010 %I arXiv %X We prove that a K-contact Lie group of dimension five or greater is the central extension of a symplectic Lie group by complexifying the Lie algebra and applying a result from complex contact geometry, namely, that, if the adjoint action of the complex Reeb vector field on a complex contact Lie algebra is diagonalizable, then it is trivial. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.1531v1