Contact structures on 3-manifolds are deformations of foliations

DOI10.4310/MRL.2007.V14.N5.A6zbMATH Open1135.57013arXivmath/0607825OpenAlexW2074566181MaRDI QIDQ2474587FDOQ2474587

Authors: John B. Etnyre 

Publication date: 6 March 2008

Published in: Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this note we observe, answering a question of Eliashberg and Thurston, that all contact structures on a closed oriented 3-manifold are $C^{i}nfty$-deformations of foliations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0607825

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zbMATH Keywords

open books\(C^\infty\)-deformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30)

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