Every real 3-manifold is real contact

DOI10.4310/JSG.2022.V20.N6.A3zbMATH Open1522.57043arXiv2104.05265MaRDI QIDQ6042875FDOQ6042875

Authors: Merve Cengiz, Ferit Öztürk 

Publication date: 4 May 2023

Published in: The Journal of Symplectic Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A real 3-manifold is a smooth 3-manifold together with an orientation preserving smooth involution, which is called a real structure. A real contact 3-manifold is a real 3-manifold with a contact distribution that is antisymmetric with respect to the real structure. We show that every real 3-manifold can be obtained via surgery along invariant knots starting from the standard real $S^3$ and that this operation can be performed in the contact setting too. Using this result we prove that any real 3-manifold admits a real contact structure. As a corollary we show that any oriented overtwisted contact structure on an integer homology real 3-sphere can be isotoped to be real. Finally we give construction examples on $S^{1}imes{S}^2$ and lens spaces. For instance on every lens space there exists a unique real structure that acts on each Heegaard torus as hyperellipic involution. We show that any tight contact structure on any lens space is real with respect to that real structure.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05265

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zbMATH Keywords

contact structuresreal structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Contact structures in 3 dimensions (57K33)

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