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On generalizing Lutz twists

Symplectic Geometry 2015-12-23 v5 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We give a possible generalization of Lutz twist to all dimensions. This reproves the fact that every contact manifold can be given a non-fillable contact structure and also shows great flexibility in the manifolds that can be realized as cores of overtwisted families. We moreover show that R2n+1R^{2n+1} has at least three distinct contact structures. This version of the paper contains both the texts of the published version of the paper together with an Erratum to the published version appended to the end.

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@article{arxiv.0903.0295,
  title  = {On generalizing Lutz twists},
  author = {John B. Etnyre and Dishant M. Pancholi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.0295},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

19 pages, 2 figures, and erratum to the published version of the paper

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