A unique decomposition theorem for tight contact 3-manifolds

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Authors Fan Ding, Hansjörg Geiges

Publication date 29 April 2008

Published in L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610284

zbMATH Keywords

tight contact manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65)

Abstract: It has been shown by V. Colin that every tight contact 3-manifold can be written as a connected sum of prime manifolds. Here we prove that the summands in this decomposition are unique up to order and contactomorphism.

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