Pinwheels and bypasses (Q2571366)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2221863
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2221863 |
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Pinwheels and bypasses (English)
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1 November 2005
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This paper builds upon earlier work by the authors concerning tight contact structures on 3--manifolds. Here they consider the question as to when the attachment of a family of bypasses along a family of Legendrian curves to a convex surface results in a tight contact manifold. (The attachment of bypasses was introduced by \textit{K. Honda} in [Geom. Topol. 4, 309--368 (2000; Zbl 0980.57010)]). The answer is that a necessary and sufficient condition for this to happen is the nonexistence of a polygonal region which they call a virtual pinwheel.
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Tight
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contact structure
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bypass
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pinwheel
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convex surface
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