A cut-and-paste approach to contact topology

zbMath1094.57018arXivmath/0210091MaRDI QIDQ2493394

William H. Kazez

Publication date: 12 June 2006

Published in: Boletín de la Sociedad Matemática Mexicana. Third Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0210091

zbMATH Keywords

contact structure; tight; lamination; Haken manifold; taut foliation; convex decomposition; atoroidal

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57R17: Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension

57M50: General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds

53C15: General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.)

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