Three-dimensional contact structures and bifurcations of foliations of surfaces

DOI10.1007/S002220000082zbMATH Open1186.53097arXivmath/9908178OpenAlexW3101154741MaRDI QIDQ1581820FDOQ1581820

Authors: Emmanuel Giroux 

Publication date: 15 January 2002

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The main purpose of this article is to classify contact structures on some 3-manifolds, namely lens spaces, most torus bundles over a circle, the solid torus, and the thickened torus T^2 x [0,1]. This classification completes earlier work (by Etnyre [math.DG/9812065], Eliashberg, Kanda, Makar-Limanov, and the author) and results from the combination of two techniques: surgery, which produces many contact structures, and tomography, which allows one to analyse a contact structure given a priori and to create from it a combinatorial image. The surgery methods are based on a theorem of Y. Eliashberg -- revisited by R. Gompf [math.GT/9803019] -- and produces holomorphically fillable contact structures on closed manifolds. Tomography theory, developed in parts 2 and 3, draws on notions introduced by the author and yields a small number of possible models for contact structures on each of the manifolds listed above.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9908178

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zbMATH Keywords

tomographysurgerylens spacetorus fibrationflat torus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30)

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