Contact surgery and symplectic handlebodies

DOI10.14492/hokmj/1381413841zbMath0737.57012MaRDI QIDQ1175188

Alan Weinstein

Publication date: 25 June 1992

Published in: Hokkaido Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.14492/hokmj/1381413841

zbMATH Keywords

conformal symplectic normal bundle; conformally symplectic vector field; elementary cobordism having a symplectic structure; isotropic sphere in a contact manifold; manifold obtained by elementary surgery

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57R25: Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology

57R65: Surgery and handlebodies

57R15: Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.)

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