Contact homology of toroidal manifolds (Q2388864)
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Contact homology of toroidal manifolds (English)
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20 September 2005
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The authors show that contact homology distinguishes infinitely many tight contact structures on any orientable, toroidal, irreducible \(3\)-manifold. As a consequence, they show that on a very large class of toroidal manifolds, all known examples of universally tight contact structures with nonvanishing torsion satisfy the Weinstein conjecture, i.e., their Reeb vector fields have a periodic orbit.
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contact structures
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Reeb fields
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contact homology
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toroidal manifolds
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