Notes on open book decompositions for Engel structures

DOI10.2140/AGT.2018.18.4275MaRDI QIDQ1713060zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vincent Colin, Francisco Presas, Thomas Vogel

Publication date 24 January 2019

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07639

zbMATH Keywords

contact structureopen book decompositionEngel structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Abstract: We relate open book decompositions of a 4-manifold M with its Engel structures. Our main result is, given an open book decomposition of M whose binding is a collection of 2-tori and whose monodromy preserves a framing of a page, the construction of an En-gel structure whose isotropic foliation is transverse to the interior of the pages and tangent to the binding. In particular the pages are contact man-ifolds and the monodromy is a contactomorphism. As a consequence, on a parallelizable closed 4-manifold, every open book with toric binding carries in the previous sense an Engel structure. Moreover, we show that amongst the supported Engel structures we construct, there is a class of loose Engel structures.

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