Contact structures on open 3-manifolds

DOI10.4310/JSG.2006.V4.N1.A5MaRDI QIDQ854482zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors James J. Tripp

Publication date 4 December 2006

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0408049

zbMATH Keywords

3-manifoldcontact structureovertwisted contact structuretight contact structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10)

Abstract: In this paper, we study contact structures on any open 3-manifold V which is the interior of a compact 3-manifold. To do this, we introduce proper contact isotopy invariants called the slope at infinity and the division number at infinity. We first prove several classification theorems for T^2 x [0, infty), T^2 x R, and S^1 x R^2 using these concepts. This investigation yields infinitely many tight contact structures on T^2 x [0,infty), T^2 x R, and S^1 x R^2 which admit no precompact embedding into another tight contact structure on the same space. Finally, we show that if V is irreducible and has an end of nonzero genus, then there are uncountably many tight contact structures on V that are not contactomorphic, yet are isotopic. Similarly, there are uncountably many overtwisted contact structures on V that are not contactomorphic, yet are isotopic.

Review text

The author studies tight contact structures on an open 3-manifold \(V\) that is the interior of a compact manifold. He introduces new proper contact isotopy invariants called the slope at infinity and the division number at infinity. Several classification theorems for \(T^2\times[0,\infty)\), \(T^2\times\mathbb R\) and \(S^1\times\mathbb R^2\) are proposed using these concepts (compare [\textit{Y. Eliashberg}, Int. Math. Res. Not. 1993, No.3, 87-91 (1993; Zbl 0784.53022)]). It is proved that there are infinitely many tight contact structures on \(T^2\times[0,1)\) which cannot be extended to a tight contact structure on \(T^2\times[0,\infty)\). Similar results can be obtained on \(T^2\times\mathbb R\) and \(S^1\times\mathbb R^2\). Moreover, generalizing a result by Y. Eliashberg, it is shown that there are uncountably many tight (also overtwisted) contact structures that are contactomorphic under a special assumption on \(V\).

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