Constructing symplectic forms on 4--manifolds which vanish on circles.
In this paper, we present a new approach to the construction of Einstein metrics by a generalization of Thurston's Dehn filling. In particular in dimension 3, we will obtain an analytic proof of Thurston's result.
The paper gives an account of the recent development in 3-dimensional contact geometry. The central result of the paper states that there exists a unique tight contact structure on . Together with the earlier classification of overtwisted contact structures on 3-manifolds this result completes the classification of contact structures on .
Starting from the work of Bhupal we extend to the contact case the Viterbo capacity and Traynor’s construction of symplectic homology. As an application we get a new proof of the Non-Squeezing Theorem of Eliashberg, Kim and Polterovich.
We prove a structure theorem for closed, orientable 5-manifolds with fundamental group and second Stiefel-Whitney class equal to zero on . This structure theorem is then used to construct contact structures on such manifolds by applying contact surgery to fake projective spaces and certain -quotients of .
In this paper we present selected properties of barycentric coordinates in the Euclidean topological space. We prove the topological correspondence between a subset of an affine closed space of εn and the set of vectors created from barycentric coordinates of points of this subset.
We prove that the topological φ-category of a pair (M,N) of topological manifolds is infinite if the algebraic φ-category of the pair of fundamental groups (π₁(M),π₁(N)) is infinite. Some immediate consequences of this fact are also pointed out.