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Tightness is preserved by Legendrian surgery

Geometric Topology 2014-12-04 v4 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

This paper describes a characterization of tightness of closed contact 3-manifolds in terms of supporting open book decompositions. The main result is that tightness of a closed contact 3-manifold is preserved under Legendrian surgery.

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@article{arxiv.1404.1705,
  title  = {Tightness is preserved by Legendrian surgery},
  author = {Andy Wand},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.1705},
  year   = {2014}
}

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version accepted by Annals of Mathematics

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