Pinwheels and bypasses

DOI10.2140/AGT.2005.5.769MaRDI QIDQ2571366zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ko Honda, William H. Kazez, Gordana Matić

Publication date 1 November 2005

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0501354, https://eudml.org/doc/125952, http://www.emis.de/journals/UW/agt/AGTVol5/agt-5-33.abs.html

zbMATH Keywords

bypasscontact structureconvex surfacepinwheelTight

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Abstract: We give a necessary and sufficient condition for the addition of a collection of disjoint bypasses to a convex surface to be universally tight -- namely the nonexistence of a polygonal region which we call a virtual pinwheel.

Review text

This paper builds upon earlier work by the authors concerning tight contact structures on 3--manifolds. Here they consider the question as to when the attachment of a family of bypasses along a family of Legendrian curves to a convex surface results in a tight contact manifold. (The attachment of bypasses was introduced by \textit{K. Honda} in [Geom. Topol. 4, 309--368 (2000; Zbl 0980.57010)]). The answer is that a necessary and sufficient condition for this to happen is the nonexistence of a polygonal region which they call a virtual pinwheel.

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