Lectures on open book decompositions and contact structures
Symplectic Geometry
2007-05-23 v3 Geometric Topology
Abstract
These are lecture notes from the Clay Mathematics Institute summer school ``Floer Homology, Gauge Theory, and Low Dimensional Topology'' Alfred Renyi Institute; www.claymath.org/programs/summer_school/2004/. The main goal of these notes is to sketch a proof of Giroux correspondence between open book decompositions of three manifolds and contact structures, and then discuss various applications of this correspondence.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0409402,
title = {Lectures on open book decompositions and contact structures},
author = {John B. Etnyre},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0409402},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
38 pages, 19 figures, many typos corrected and an error in Lemma 3.5 corrected