On the classification of tight contact structures. I

DOI10.2140/gt.2000.4.309zbMath0980.57010arXivmath/9910127OpenAlexW2070979243MaRDI QIDQ1586950

Ko Honda

Publication date: 30 November 2000

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9910127

zbMATH Keywords

contact structurelens spacesLegendrian surgerysolid tori

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Almost contact and almost symplectic manifolds (53D15)

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