English

Transverse universal links

Geometric Topology 2022-02-21 v3 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We show that there exists a transverse link in the standard contact structures on the 3-sphere such that all contact 3-manifolds are contact branched covers over this transverse link.

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@article{arxiv.1712.09968,
  title  = {Transverse universal links},
  author = {Roger Casals and John B. Etnyre},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.09968},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

11 pages, 8 figures, corrects Figure 1

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