A unique decomposition theorem for tight contact 3-manifolds

zbMATH Open1147.57021MaRDI QIDQ2425369FDOQ2425369

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

Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) 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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