Surgery on contact 3-manifolds and Stein surfaces

Publication date: 22 December 2004

Published in: Bolyai Society Mathematical Studies (Search for Journal in Brave)

Seiberg-Witten invariants tight Legendrian knot convex surface overtwisted Stein surface dividing set contact 3-manifold contact Ozsváth-Szabó invariants \(Spin^c\) structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-02)

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