Pinwheels and bypasses

DOI10.2140/AGT.2005.5.769zbMATH Open1086.57016arXivmath/0501354OpenAlexW3100343190MaRDI QIDQ2571366FDOQ2571366

Authors: Ko Honda, William H. Kazez, Gordana Matić 

Publication date: 1 November 2005

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

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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0501354

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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)

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• Chord diagrams, contact-topological quantum field theory and contact categories
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• Classification of tight contact structures on surgeries on the figure-eight knot
• Pinwheels as Lagrangian barriers
• 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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