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We determine the relationship between the contact structure induced by a fibered knot, K, in the three-sphere and the contact structures induced by its various cables. Understanding this relationship allows us to classify fibered cable…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-04-29 Matthew Hedden

We give a complete classification of foliations on open contact manifolds whose leaves are contact submanifolds of the ambient manifold. The results are analogues of Haefliger's classification of foliations on open manifold.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Mahuya Datta , Sauvik Mukherjee

Given any smooth fibration of the unit 3-sphere by great circles, we show that the distribution of 2-planes orthogonal to the great circle fibres is a tight contact structure, a fact well known in the special case of the Hopf fibrations.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Herman Gluck

We prove that for a fibration of simply-connected spaces of finite type $F\hookrightarrow E\to B$ with $F$ being positively elliptic and $H^*(F,\qq)$ not possessing non-trivial derivations of negative degree, the base $B$ is formal if and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2012-05-11 Manuel Amann , Vitali Kapovitch

Let $M$ be a fibered 3-manifold with multiple boundary components. We show that the fiber structure of $M$ transforms to closely related transversely oriented taut foliations realizing all rational multislopes in some open neighborhood of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Tejas Kalelkar , Rachel Roberts

We define a new combinatorial class of triangulations of closed 3-manifolds, satisfying a weak version of 0-efficiency combined with a weak version of minimality, and study them using twisted squares. As an application, we obtain strong…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-12-23 Feng Luo , Stephan Tillmann

We classify primitive Fano threefolds in positive characteristic whose Picard numbers are at least two. We also classify Fano theefolds of Picard rank two.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Masaya Asai , Hiromu Tanaka

We present a new, completely three-dimensional proof of the fact, due to Gabai-Eliashberg-Thurston, that every closed, oriented, irreducible 3-manifold with nonzero second homology carries a universally tight contact structure.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ko Honda , William H. Kazez , Gordana Matic

We show that a nondegenerate tight contact form on the 3-sphere has exactly two simple closed Reeb orbits if and only if the differential in linearized contact homology vanishes. Moreover, in this case the Floquet multipliers and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-07-10 F. Bourgeois , K. Cieliebak , T. Ekholm

We study contact structures compatible with genus one open book decompositions with one boundary component. Any monodromy for such an open book can be written as a product of Dehn twists around dual non-separating curves in the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-01 John A. Baldwin

Manifolds endowed with three foliations pairwise transversal are known as 3-webs. Equivalently, they can be algebraically defined as biparacomplex or complex product manifolds, i.e., manifolds endowed with three tensor fields of type…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-28 Fernando Etayo , Rafael Santamaría

We develop new techniques in the theory of convex surfaces to prove complete classification results for tight contact structures on lens spaces, solid tori, and T^2 X I. Erratum: In this note we seek to remedy errors which appeared in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Ko Honda

We advance Matkovi\v{c} ideas, originally applied to complete the classification of tight structures on small Seifert fibred $L$-spaces, to show the existence of contact structures on Brieskorn spheres which are tight and zero-twisting.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Alberto Cavallo , Irena Matkovič

We show that contact homology distinguishes infinitely many tight contact structures on any orientable, toroidal, irreducible 3-manifold. As a consequence of the contact homology computations, on a very large class of toroidal manifolds,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Frederic Bourgeois , Vincent Colin

The goal of this paper is to investigate the topological structure of open simply-connected 3-manifolds whose scalar curvature has a slow decay at infinity. In particular, we show that the Whitehead manifold does not admit a complete…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Jian Wang

We introduce integrable complex structures on twistor spaces fibered over complex manifolds. We then show, in particular, that the twistor spaces associated with generalized Kahler, SKT and strong HKT manifolds all naturally admit complex…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-22 Steven Gindi

A real 3-manifold is a smooth 3-manifold together with an orientation preserving smooth involution, called a real structure. In this article we study open book decompositions on smooth real 3-manifolds that are compatible with the real…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-10-09 Ferit Ozturk , Nermin Salepci

We show that closed, simply connected, positively curved 10-manifolds with effective, isometric actions of $3$-dimensional tori are homotopy spheres or homotopy complex projective spaces.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Anusha M. Krishnan , Michael Wiemeler

Using recently developed Seifert fibering operators for 3D $\mathcal{N} = 2$ gauge theories, we formulate the necessary ingredients for a state-integral model of the topological quantum field theory dual to a given Seifert manifold under…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-18 Yale Fan

In this note, we consider contractible loops of contactomorphisms that are positive over some non-empty closed subset of a contact manifold. Such closed subsets are called immaterial. We argue that the complement of a Reeb-invariant…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Igor Uljarević