Contact 3-manifolds twenty years since J. Martinet's work

Yakov Eliashberg

Annales de l'institut Fourier (1992)

  • Volume: 42, Issue: 1-2, page 165-192
  • ISSN: 0373-0956

Abstract

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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 S 3 . Together with the earlier classification of overtwisted contact structures on 3-manifolds this result completes the classification of contact structures on S 3 .

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Eliashberg, Yakov. "Contact 3-manifolds twenty years since J. Martinet's work." Annales de l'institut Fourier 42.1-2 (1992): 165-192. <http://eudml.org/doc/74949>.

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Citations in EuDML Documents

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  1. Burak Ozbagci, On the Heegaard genus of contact 3-manifolds
  2. Thilo Kuessner, An invariant of nonpositively curved contact manifolds
  3. M. E. A. Hadjar, Sur un problème d'existence relatif de formes de contact invariantes en dimension trois
  4. Vincent Colin, Chirurgies de Dehn admissibles dans les variétés de contact tendues
  5. Vincent Colin, Recollement de variétés de contact tendues
  6. Yoshihiko Mitsumatsu, Anosov flows and non-Stein symplectic manifolds
  7. Vincent Colin, Sur la torsion des structures de contact tendues
  8. Emmanuel Giroux, Une structure de contact, même tendue, est plus ou moins tordue
  9. Vincent Colin, Emmanuel Giroux, Ko Honda, Finitude homotopique et isotopique des structures de contact tendues
  10. François Laudenbach, Orbites périodiques et courbes pseudo-holomorphes. Application à la conjecture de Weinstein en dimension 3

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