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

contact structureconvex surfacepinwheelTightbypass

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.

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(8)

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• Bypass attachments and homotopy classes of 2-plane fields in contact topology
• Right-veering diffeomorphisms of compact surfaces with boundary
• A categorification of \(\mathbf{U}_T(\mathfrak{sl}(1|1))\) and its tensor product representations
• Algebraic torsion in contact manifolds

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