Geodesible contact structures on 3--manifolds
Geometric Topology
2014-11-11 v2 Symplectic Geometry
Abstract
In this paper, we study and almost completely classify contact structures on closed 3--manifolds which are totally geodesic for some Riemannian metric. Due to previously known results, this amounts to classifying contact structures on Seifert manifolds which are transverse to the fibers. Actually, we obtain the complete classification of contact structures with negative (maximal) twisting number (which includes the transverse ones) on Seifert manifolds whose base is not a sphere, as well as partial results in the spherical case.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0711.0377,
title = {Geodesible contact structures on 3--manifolds},
author = {Patrick Massot},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.0377},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
49 pages, 6 figures. v2 includes referee's suggestions, adds some references and discussions, corrects small inaccuracies, minor exposition improvements. this is almost the published version