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A classification result and contact structures in oriented cyclic orbifold

Algebraic Topology 2015-12-24 v7 Differential Geometry Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We prove every oriented compact cyclic 33-orbifold has a contact structure. There is another proof in the web by Daniel Herr in his uploaded thesis which depends on open book decompositions, ours is independent of that. We define overtwisted contact structures, tight contact structures and Lutz twist on oriented compact cyclic 3-orbifolds. We show every contact structure in an oriented compact cyclic 33-orbifold contactified by our method is homotopic to an overtwisted structure with the overtwisted disc intersecting the singular locus of the orbifold. We pose Eliashberg's like characterization of overtwisted contact structures of cyclic 33-orbifolds as an open problem. In course of proving the above results we prove a classification result for compact oriented cyclic-3 orbifolds which has not been seen by us in literature before.

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@article{arxiv.1503.05645,
  title  = {A classification result and contact structures in oriented cyclic orbifold},
  author = {Saibal Ganguli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.05645},
  year   = {2015}
}

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