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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 S3S^3-bundle over S2S^2 and also into a unique overtwisted contact structure on S3×S2S^3\times S^2. 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