Embedding all contact 3-manifolds in a fixed contact 5-manifold
Geometric Topology
2018-08-01 v2 Symplectic Geometry
Abstract
In this note we observe that one can contact embed all contact 3-manifolds into a Stein fillable contact structure on the twisted -bundle over and also into a unique overtwisted contact structure on . These results are proven using "spun embeddings" and Lefschetz fibrations.
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@article{arxiv.1712.09642,
title = {Embedding all contact 3-manifolds in a fixed contact 5-manifold},
author = {John B. Etnyre and Yanki Lekili},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.09642},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
19 pages, 4 figures. Fixed typos, and added references and two figures