On the Gabai-Eliashberg-Thurston theorem

2001/11/10 by Ko Honda, Honda, Ko, William H. Kazez +3
Mathematics · #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT) #math.GT

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0111123

10 pages, 1 figure

arxiv created 2001/11/10 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

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.

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