Contact structures on 3-manifolds are deformations of foliations

DOI10.4310/MRL.2007.v14.n5.a6zbMath1135.57013arXivmath/0607825OpenAlexW2074566181MaRDI QIDQ2474587

John B. Etnyre

Publication date: 6 March 2008

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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