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Milnor fillable contact structures are universally tight

Geometric Topology 2012-06-13 v3 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We show that the canonical contact structure on the link of a normal complex singularity is universally tight. As a corollary we show the existence of closed, oriented, atoroidal 3-manifolds with infinite fundamental groups which carry universally tight contact structures that are not deformations of taut (or Reebless) foliations. This answers two questions of Etnyre.

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@article{arxiv.1005.2385,
  title  = {Milnor fillable contact structures are universally tight},
  author = {Yanki Lekili and Burak Ozbagci},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.2385},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

12 pages, 2 figures. Improved exposition following a referee's comments

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