Contact structures, deformations and taut foliations

DOI10.2140/GT.2016.20.697MaRDI QIDQ280908zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jonathan Bowden

Publication date 10 May 2016

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.3833

zbMATH Keywords

circle actioncontact structuretaut foliation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Uniformly hyperbolic systems (expanding, Anosov, Axiom A, etc.) (37D20) Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Rigidity results (53C24) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10)

Abstract: Using deformations of foliations to contact structures as well as rigidity properties of Anosov foliations we provide infinite families of examples which show that the space of taut foliations in a given homotopy class of plane fields is in general not path connected. Similar methods also show that the space of representations of the fundamental group of a hyperbolic surface to the group of smooth diffeomorphisms of the circle with fixed Euler class is in general not path connected. As an important step along the way we resolve the question of which universally tight contact structures on Seifert fibered spaces are deformations of taut or Reebless foliations when the genus of the base is positive or the twisting number of the contact structure in the sense of Giroux is non-negative.

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