Approximating C^1,0-foliations

DOI10.2140/GTM.2015.19.21MaRDI QIDQ906841zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors William H. Kazez, Rachel Roberts

Publication date 29 January 2016

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.5919, http://msp.org/gtm/2015/19-1/p02.xhtml

zbMATH Keywords

confoliationcontact structuredominating 2-formL-spacetaut foliationtightuniversally tightvolume-preserving flowweakly symplectically fillable

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: We extend the Eliashberg-Thurston theorem on approximations of taut oriented $C^2$-foliations of 3-manifolds by both positive and negative contact structures to a large class of taut oriented $C^{1,0}$-foliations, where by $C^{1,0}$ foliation, we mean a foliation with continuous tangent plane field. These $C^{1,0}$-foliations can therefore be approximated by weakly symplectically fillable, universally tight, contact structures. This allows applications of $C^2$-foliation theory to contact topology and Floer theory to be generalized and extended to constructions of $C^{1,0}$-foliations.

Review text

A famous theorem of \textit{Yakov M. Eliashberg} and \textit{W. P. Thurston} [Confoliations. University Lecture Series. 13. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society (1998; Zbl 0893.53001)] asserts that a taut, transversely oriented \(C^2\)-foliation of a \(3\)-manifold (which is not the product foliation of \(S^2\times S^1\)) can be continuously deformed into a family of \(C^\infty\)-contact structures which are weakly symplectically fillable and universally tight. The paper under review generalizes this result to \(C^{1,0}\)-foliations, that is \(C^1\)-foliations with a continuous tangent plane field, satisfing a simple transitivity condition. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1333.57003].

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