On the uniqueness of the contact structure approximating a foliation

DOI10.2140/GT.2016.20.2439zbMATH Open1350.53101arXiv1302.5672OpenAlexW3104686996MaRDI QIDQ321669FDOQ321669

Authors: Thomas Vogel 

Publication date: 14 October 2016

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

Abstract: According to a theorem of Eliashberg and Thurston a $C^2$-foliation on a closed 3-manifold can be $C^0$-approximated by contact structures unless all leaves of the foliation are spheres. Examples on the 3-torus show that every neighbourhood of a foliation can contain non-diffeomorphic contact structures. In this paper we show uniqueness up to isotopy of the contact structure in a small neighbourhood of the foliation when the foliation has no torus leaf and is not a foliation without holonomy on parabolic torus bundles over the circle. This allows us to associate invariants from contact topology to foliations. As an application we show that the space of taut foliations in a given homotopy class of plane fields is not connected in general.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.5672

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zbMATH Keywords

foliationscontact structuresspace of taut foliations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30)

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