Foliations, contact structures and their interactions in dimension three

Publication date 22 November 2018

Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30) General topology of 3-manifolds (57K30) Contact structures in 3 dimensions (57K33) Other geometric structures on 3-manifolds (57K35)

Abstract: We survey the interactions between foliations and contact structures in dimension three, with an emphasis on sutured manifolds and invariants of sutured contact manifolds. This paper contains two original results: the fact that a closed orientable irreducible 3-manifold M with nonzero second homol-ogy carries a hypertight contact structure and the fact that an orientable, taut, balanced sutured 3-manifold is not a product if and only if it carries a contact structure with nontrivial cylindrical contact homology. The proof of the second statement uses the Handel-Miller theory of end-periodic diffeomorphisms of end-periodic surfaces.

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