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Monopoles and contact 3-manifolds

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v2 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We propose the study of some kind of monopole equations directly associated with a contact structure. Through a rudimentary analysis about the solutions, we show that a closed contact 3-manifold with positive Tanaka-Webster curvature and vanishing torsion must be either not symplectically semifillable or having torsion Euler class of the contact structure.

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@article{arxiv.math/9905066,
  title  = {Monopoles and contact 3-manifolds},
  author = {Jih-Hsin Cheng and Hung-Lin Chiu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9905066},
  year   = {2007}
}

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25pages

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