English

Paires de structures de contact sur les vari\'et\'es de dimension trois

Symplectic Geometry 2014-10-01 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We introduce a notion of positive pair of contact structures on a 3-manifold which generalizes a previous definition of Eliashberg-Thurston and Mitsumatsu. Such a pair gives rise to a locally integrable plane field λ\lambda. We prove that if λ\lambda is uniquely integrable and if both structures of the pair are tight, then the integral foliation of λ\lambda doesn't contain any Reeb component whose core curve is homologous to zero. Moreover, the ambient manifold carries a Reebless foliation. We also show a stability theorem "\`a la Reeb" for positive pairs of tight contact structures.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0801.1026,
  title  = {Paires de structures de contact sur les vari\'et\'es de dimension trois},
  author = {Vincent Colin and Sebastiao Firmo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.1026},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

21 pages, we correct several mistakes of v1

R2 v1 2026-06-21T10:00:18.182Z