On the classification of tight contact structures. I

DOI10.2140/GT.2000.4.309MaRDI QIDQ1586950zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors 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

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

Abstract: We develop new techniques in the theory of convex surfaces to prove complete classification results for tight contact structures on lens spaces, solid tori, and T^2 X I. Erratum: In this note we seek to remedy errors which appeared in version 2 and were propagated in subsequent papers.

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