Cauchy-Riemann geometry and contact topology in three dimensions

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Authors Jih-Hsin Cheng

Publication date 30 March 2000

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

CR structures, CR operators, and generalizations (32V05) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Abstract: We introduce a global Cauchy-Riemann($CR$)-invariant and discuss its behavior on the moduli space of $CR$-structures. We argue that this study is related to the Smale conjecture in 3-topology and the problem of counting complex structures. Furthermore, we propose a contact-analogue of Ray-Singer's analytic torsion. This ``contact torsion is expected to be able to distinguish among ``contact lens spaces. We also propose the study of a certain kind of monopole equation associated with a contact structure.

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