Contact structures and geometric topology
Symplectic Geometry
2011-12-22 v1 Geometric Topology
Abstract
This is a survey on contact open books and contact Dehn surgery. The relation between these two concepts is discussed, and various applications are sketched, e.g. the monodromy of Stein fillable contact 3-manifolds, the Giroux-Goodman proof of Harer's conjecture on fibred links, construction of symplectic caps to fillings (Eliashberg, Etnyre), and detection of non-loose Legendrian knots with the help of contact surgery.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1004.3172,
title = {Contact structures and geometric topology},
author = {Hansjörg Geiges},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.3172},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
23 pages, 9 figures