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Strongly overtwisted contact 3-manifolds

Symplectic Geometry 2025-10-14 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We prove the existence of a subclass of overtwisted contact structures, called strongly overtwisted, on a 3-manifold that satisfy a complete h-principle without prescribing the contact structures over any subset of the 3-manifold. As a consequence, the homotopy type of the space of overtwisted disk embeddings into a strongly overtwisted contact 3-manifold is determined. A complete h-principle for a subclass of loose Legendrians is also derived from the main result. In general, the method allows us to deduce an h-principle for overtwisted disks that are fixed near the boundary in an arbitrary overtwisted contact 3-manifold.

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@article{arxiv.2402.08204,
  title  = {Strongly overtwisted contact 3-manifolds},
  author = {Eduardo Fernández},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.08204},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

18 pages. Final version; accepted in Journal of Topology

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