Brieskorn manifolds as contact branched covers of spheres
Geometric Topology
2007-05-23 v1 Symplectic Geometry
Abstract
We show that Brieskorn manifolds with their standard contact structures are contact branched coverings of spheres. This covering maps a contact open book decomposition of the Brieskorn manifold onto a Milnor open book of the sphere.
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@article{arxiv.math/0509660,
title = {Brieskorn manifolds as contact branched covers of spheres},
author = {Ferit Ozturk and Klaus Niederkrüger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0509660},
year = {2007}
}
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8 pages, 1 figure