2021/08/21 by Yakov Eliashberg, Eliashberg, Yakov, N. Mishachev +1
Mathematics · #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2108.09452
It was proven in the first author's paper "Contact 3-manifolds twenty years since J. Martinet's work" (Ann. Inst. Fourier, 42(1992), 165--192) that any tight contact structure on the 3-sphere is diffeomorphic to the standard one. It was also claimed there without a proof that similar methods could be used to prove a multi-parametric version: the space of tight contact structures on S3, fixed at a point, is contractible. We prove this result in the current paper.