On the classification of tight contact structures
Geometric Topology
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
Recently, there have been several breakthroughs in the classification of tight contact structures. We give an outline on how to exploit methods developed by Ko Honda and John Etnyre to obtain classification results for specific examples of small Seifert manifolds.
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@article{arxiv.math/0201099,
title = {On the classification of tight contact structures},
author = {P. Ghiggini and S. Schoenenberger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0201099},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
31 pages, 17 figures. Exposition improved. To appear in "Topology and Geometry of Manifolds", edited by Gordana Matic and Clint McCrory, Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, volume 71 (2003), AMS