Moduli of contact circles

DOI10.1515/CRLL.2002.085MaRDI QIDQ4779985zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hansjörg Geiges, Jesús Gonzalo Pérez

Publication date 30 October 2002

Published in Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0107099

zbMATH Keywords

representationsfundamental groups3-manifoldstaut contact circleTeichmüller and moduli spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Abstract: We continue the study of linear families of contact forms on 3-manifolds begun in our paper `Contact geometry and complex surfaces'. The present paper introduces Teichmuller and moduli spaces for so-called taut contact circles. By constructing a developing map for taut contact circles, we show that these geometrically defined deformation spaces are equivalent to certain spaces of representations of the fundamental group in appropriate Lie groups. Furthermore, we relate these deformation spaces to `classical' Teichmuller theory of Riemann surfaces and orbifolds.

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