Approximating C^0-foliations by contact structures

DOI10.1007/S00039-016-0387-2zbMATH Open1362.57037arXiv1509.07709OpenAlexW2203601567MaRDI QIDQ730359FDOQ730359

Jonathan Bowden

Publication date: 27 December 2016

Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that any co-orientable foliation of dimension two on a closed orientable $3$-manifold with continuous tangent plane field can be $C^0$-approximated by both positive and negative contact structures unless all the leaves are simply connected. As applications we deduce that the existence of a taut $C^0$-foliation implies the existence of universally tight contact structures in the same homotopy class of plane fields and that a closed $3$-manifold that admits a taut $C^0$-foliation of codimension-1 is not an $L$-space in the sense of Heegaard-Floer homology.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.07709

zbMATH Keywords

foliationcontact structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30)

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