Contact 3-manifolds twenty years since J. Martinet's work (Q1203366)
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Contact 3-manifolds twenty years since J. Martinet's work (English)
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8 February 1993
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The paper gives an account of the recent development in 3-dimensional contact geometry. The central result of the paper states that there exists a unique tight contact structure on \(S^ 3\). Together with the earlier classification of overtwisted contact structures on 3-manifolds this result completes the classification of contact structures on \(S^ 3\).
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contact geometry
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tight contact structure
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overtwisted contact structures
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3-manifolds
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