Convex decomposition theory

DOI10.1155/S1073792802101140MaRDI QIDQ2778027zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ko Honda, William H. Kazez, Gordana Matić

Publication date 10 September 2002

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0102022

zbMATH Keywords

3-manifoldcontact structurefoliationgluingtauttight

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30)

Review text

The present paper continues the work started by the same authors in [Geom. Topol. 4, 219-242 (2000; Zbl 0961.57009)], with the purpose of studying relationships between taut foliations and tight contact structures [\textit{Y. M. Eliashberg} and \textit{W. P. Thurston}, Confooliations, Univ. Lect. Ser. 13 (1998; Zbl 0893.53001)] by means of the notion of convex decomposition. The paper makes essential use of Gabai's sutured manifold decomposition theory [\textit{D. Gabai}, J. Differ. Geom. 18, 445-503 (1983; Zbl 0533.57013)], as well as of \textit{V. Colin}'s key ideas [Bull. Soc. Math. Fr. 127, No. 1, 43-69; addendum ibid. 127, 623 (1999; Zbl 0930.53053); Sur la torsion de structures de contact tendues, Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér., IV. Sér. 34, No. 2, 267-286 (2001; Zbl 1035.53119)] in the context of convex decomposition theory. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIn particular, if \((M,\gamma)\) is an oriented, compact, connected, irreducible, sutured 3-manifold which has boundary, is taut and has annular sutures, the authors provide an alternative proof of the existence of a universally tight contact structure (originally due to Gabai-Eliashberg-Thurston); this proof is performed by direct application of a suitable gluing theorem, and resorts neither 4-dimensional symplectic filling techniques nor perturbation of taut foliations into tight contact structure (as it happens in the previous paper by the same authors). NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEMoreover, similar ideas are applied to prove that, if \(M\) is an oriented, closed, connected, irreducile 3-manifold which contains an incompressible torus, then \(M\) carries infinitely many isomorphism classes of universally tight contact structures. Note that this result is deeply related to a conjecture studied (and partially proved) in [\textit{E. Giroux}, Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér., IV. Sér. 27, No. 6, 697-705 (1994; Zbl 0819.53018), Invent. Math. 135, No. 3, 789-802 (1999; Zbl 0969.53044); \textit{K. Yutaka}, Commun. Anal. Geom. 5, No. 3, 413-438 (1997; Zbl 0899.53028); \textit{V. Colin}, Sur la torsion des structures \dots, loc. cit.].

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